Creating bloated bullshit has even more value in terms of measured changes than the initial bloat because it also creates the opportunity to fix it up later for even more changes.
Not really. One can always keep refactoring and churning things around. Search-replace to rename some long function name into something even longer. If you’ve managed to enforce the 80 char rule, this would likely result in things linted differently. Boom, massive change. No one can object to a good refactor.
You just need to create a shitload of bloated bullshit that somehow "works" (at least more or less).
That doesn't make you productive.
Actually that's even counterproductive as it creates technical debt. But by the bogus metric that would be positive.