> They haven’t been able to fix it with many multiples of that.
which may actually be the problem. I suspect that there is actually some ideal ratio that could be calculated of Input Fields / Dev, LoC / Devs, or maybe Unique Pages / Dev, or some mix of all of the above. Some of the metrics I hear out of places like airbnb absolutely blow my mind (>5000 engineers! wtaf are they all doing?!?). I can sort of see the #s at google, MS making sense given the breadth of the problems they are solving, but other places, not so much.
Project size is obviously going to be a factor, but so is machine specs. It's much more noticeable on a spinning disk. One can partially compensate for the project size aspect by opening vscode as far into your project as possible (eg, the api subfolder) rather than at the root. No real solution if you don't have an ssd though.