You're a software engineer. Your job isn't to write code.
Writing more code means;
You will always be slower than the guy who wrote less You will always have more bugs You will be slower to respond to demands and changes You will be less able to keep updated on new things You will have less development, more status quo You will understand more of your code.
The greater the number of lines of code in your application, the greater the chances of your software being brittle and the greater the chance of you losing your grasp on it.
Write less code. It's better. Don't know how? Find a way. You're an engineer. That's your job.