[Warwolt]

While the tools you talk about sound interesting, to me this was more about an in-principle possible measurement rather than something we'd actually carry out.

I think stating that "more stuff" in the program code and in the spec leads to more stuff to keep track of, and so we want to minimize complexity to maintain tractability?

[legorobot]

I think that's reasonable :) More stuff is more stuff, no matter how simple/complex the aspects of the code and reasoning for why it is that way.