[ikll]

Reducing the amount of code shouldn't be the end goal, but a way of increasing quality.

You should seek to demonstrate instead that you're making software that is more malleable, has less bugs, is easier for new hires to understand, is easy to add new features, etc.

[Ma8ee]

Of course it is not an end goal. But a quarter as much code has (in general, everything else equal) a quarter as much bugs, a quarter of the amount of code to read and understand for new hires a quarter as much code to take into account when adding new features. But none of these things are easy to measure or demonstrate. It is just easier to see that Ma8ee took 1.5x weeks to write 10,000 loc while other developer wrote 40,000 loc in x weeks.

[abacadaba]

Your diligence will surely be rewarded eventually.

/sarcasm

Edit: fwiw id work with ya though. Caring enough to try is half the battle.