LoC desire-ability is also dependent on projects stage.

Early we should see huge chunky contributions and bursts. Loc means things are being realized.

In a mature product shipping at a sustained and increasing velocity, seeing LoC decrease our grow glacially year-on-year is a warm fuzzy feeling.

By my estimation aircraft designs should grow a lot for a bit (from 0 to not 0), churn for a while, then aim for specified performance windows in periods of punctuated stability.

Reuse scenarios create some nice bubbles where LoC growth in highly validated frameworks/components is amazing, as surrounding systems obviate big chunks of themselves. Local explosions, global densification and refinement.