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I have four, and that's a stretch of my ability to manage stuff. I feel like the newer projects end up suffering; I've started and stopped several different 4th lines over the past year or so. But then I have hundreds of horses in three of those lines. They're big projects.

How many lines is too many depends entirely on you. How much breeding can you plan every year; how many barns can you afford to buy; etc. The more individual lines you have, the more attention you have to pay, so you don't accidentally cross your boosted black with your basic blacks, and so on. Maybe think about combining some of them?

I have lots. Twelve or thirteen, actually, now that I've counted. All of my horses have prefixes to help with breeding and make that fast so it doesn't seem like work. The first letter determines the line, and the second number determines the generation. I'll treat them all as generation = n for the moment.

0n - special lines. These get specific attention each year and include satin, pearl, other LE genes, and brown. I pair these horses very carefully. These are mostly in house unless I make a specific arrangement with someone. Some are from exceptional stock, but the Browns are from regular C lines.
An - Appaloosas of any color, regular create line.
Bn - Black-based line. Horses must not have any dilution genes and must appear black. Chestnuts or bays (from two Ee parents) get altered. Regular create line.
Cn - the first line where I was breeding for color (hence the C). All the horses are grullos, and some have patterns (mostly rabicano). Regular create line.
En - exceptional show horses. Mostly used for ET at this point, as any that were not altered immediately to be exclusively show ponies are now leveled off. Original creates were exceptional show horses, before I realized good showers were not necessarily good breeders.
Fn - regular creates with frame confirmed. Usually crossed out with another regular create line to avoid killing foals.
Gn - champagnes. G is for gold ponies :) regular create line.
Hn - no regard to color, only increasing the quality of the line. Regular creates.
Pn - no regard to color, perfect foundations.
Rn - red based horses. Regular creates.
Xn - no regard to color unless two stallions are equal (in which case color can be the deciding factor). Started with exceptional producers and exceptionally perfect.
ST/GO - long lines. Mostly for breeding show ponies.
Un - uneven lines (usually foundy mare to star stallion). The mares that survive testing are kept intact til they're 4, bred back to star stallions once, then spayed. I get many nice show ponies this way.

Lines where color isn't important are wonderful. They regularly produce good babies for both showing and breeding, and you're almost never disappointed with altered foals. Mares are often kept as breeders til they're 7 or so, then I mostly use them for ET or breeding to star stallions to get show ponies. If there's a line I'm just not into on any given year, I put the entire line up for public brood so other people can use them (with the exception of any 0 lines). It lets me focus on what I like, which fluctuates a bit from time to time, without making it a chore to get to every line every year.

I have three. Share sometimes. Never share. Rather not share.

I keep it simple - I don't do boosted lines, although I will pick up a 2nd gen A stallion for use as a broodmare sire from time to time if he has the right colors to fit in with what I want. I do have a DP chestnut line going, I keep the DP mares in a separate pasture. However, all my breeding stock must pass a set of criteria I set for each generation. I simply breed for duns with bling. That's how simple I keep it.

I keep trying to bring new lines in then realize i can't do it and back away haha.
I have ummm 3 now i think, my High PT show producing herd, my SB2 herd i built from scratch (that has most other genes in somewhere) and satin. But all are neglected this season and my satins i've not looked at for ages.... must sort that.

I have one big mishmash of quality to quality that usually involves satin

Brown (with lots of old brown now bay mares) S+ with GP, some Sb1
Chestnut S+ with DP and all sabinos

A few satin in both lines.
Nexus is a spinoff of my chestnut line.
A few Ice's mixed in both lines.
One chestnut sire also has KP.
I'm phasing out my old lines high pt line. No room for them. :)

I love seeing what everyone breeds for, and a bit about how your stable is organized. :)

The only ones I really pay extra, careful attention to are my nexus, KP, and ice horses... try to keep them all together. :) Everything else just kinda gets bred to whatever I have that's the same generation and is compatible.