They're not just saying the quiet part out loud. They're screaming it into a megaphone.
I just wrote a one liner that replaces a one page function.
I guess I will never be hired in a company owned by Musk.
Using lines of code to measure a developer contribution is pure nonsense.
I would value someone who actually decreases the number of loc via code factorization and redesign much higher than someone who duplicates code all over the place with copy and paste.