This is exactly where these comparisons break down. Obviously you don't need as much code to get passable implementations of a fraction of all the features.
I'd rather have 250,000 lines of code but 230,000 of that is in battle tested libraries. And of which only 20,000 lines are what we ever need to read/write.
You make a fair point that a basic framework can be expressed with much less code.
And that the remaining 20% probably contains more edge cases with proportionally more code.
But do you think the last 20% will eventually make up anywhere near 233k lines of code?
The real save here comes from rewriting: seeing all the common denominators and knowing what's ahead.