I'm not sure that folks realize that the purpose of software engineering is to program in a way that doesn't just function, but optimizes for future readability, maintainability, and behavioral change in line with product requirements.
There's a reason why programmers are not paid "by the line", and it's because LoC as an incentive structure is a disaster that leads to brittle and verbose slop code -- and we knew that even before LLMs.
So I'm glad that the (long-term) economics mediate against token-hogging software by making it literally more expensive to deal with.
I just hope that managerial types are smart enough to realize that "time to understand/upgrade/change a codebase" still matters, whether that's expressed in terms of SWE work hours or LLM tokens.