Yeah! That's definitely the case sometimes-- just not when writing "large applications" like the GP.
Like most things in life, the best answer for each situation is layered in nuance. There's a reason that it's such a meme for senior engineers to answer most questions with, "it depends."
> This issue is more prevalent in the rust and js ecosystem where instead of writing a few dozens line, the dev brings a whole library for that (almost everyone that uses chalk)
Here's some news: If you build your pretty native binary for your target operating system or the browser, you're using tens of millions of line of code.