> To people who know what they are doing more code than necessary to accomplish a task is the code smell.

While I agree, I think a lot of developers are oversensitive to boilerplate, sometimes to their own detriment. And the effort to shave off boilerplate quickly runs into diminishing returns. Beyond a certain point you end up with code that is harder to use because of the layers of abstraction you've added to avoid the last-mile developer writing unnecessary boilerplate.

But I am a touch typist, whereas I'm noticing more and more developers who are not, so maybe there's something there.