This is why I have said before and will continue to say, the future of software engineering to me will largely lie in reduction of complexity, including reduction of stack complexity, reduction of LoC (a bad single metric but could be useful as part of a bigger plan) and increasing readability. I say this as an ops type who has seen stack complexity as one of the main barriers to reliability. The reasons for this being the standard are numerous and understandable though.

It's essentially the main weakness of the open source ecosystems too. The many eyes theory falls apart when the LoC reach many millions. There will never be enough eyes finding bugs or poor practices. Maybe in the future machine learning could help reduce this gap.