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> What if they want to add a new feature that takes another ~1000 LoC?

They don't.

The LoC limit exists as much to avoid scope creep and maintain focus as it is about anything else.

It trades off utility for managing scope creep. Keeping this code base tiny necessarily means that anything that uses it would need to write more code. If the point is a demonstration instead of a usable library, then that is good because it is much easier to follow without excess complexity.

Necessarily is a strong word; there are assuredly many users of this tool who find it sufficient in its scope as it is, based on the project activity. If a user needs significant feature additions they can write them as a separate tool that interacts with this one.

This one arguably does have a bit of scope creep it's just in a separate directory.

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