Definitely not that many. Even for me this was an outlier, but it made me more comfortable with functions most people would consider long.

I'd like to clarify this was not necessarily 2kloc-complex, this was just 2kloc-long-and-not-really-meant-to-be-reused. It was a fairly long but linear process that was out of the ordinary for the rest of the codebase. It could easily have been split (hell, I had 9 fairly separate stages), but calling any of the intermediate stages out of order or without the context of the rest of the execution flow... would have been a foot gun for someone else. And, as time showed, we never needed those stages for anything else.