> patch series from a competent team that changes 3000 lines should probably be

split into a bunch of much smaller changes?

I don't understand your suggestion. If you take an ugly patch series that changes 3000 lines and organize it into small quality changes, it's still a patch series that changes 3000 lines.

There's no reason to assume my generic statement was talking about the ugly version rather than the nicely organized version.

perhaps not all of these 3000 line changes make sense?