What is lint? Also, why does it sometimes collect in massive amounts and sometimes very small ones, even if the same clothes are being washed?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Have you really tried a controlled experiment on this? Same dryer? Same settings? Exactly the same washload? Same setting on the washing machine (maybe vigorous agitation will beat more lint out of clothes). Same detergent? Really the same clothes, or just the same type of clothes? (Shorter fibers will slough off as lint more readily than long fibers.) There are a lot of variables.
The lint is the fiber from the cloth, so if something is new it will shed more lint than after you’ve washed it more times.