[Johnny555]

In my company, the business folks have no idea what the code looks like or whether or not there are comments.

All they care about is that the code works, and that features can be delivered on time.

That second part "delivered on time" includes maintaining the comments along with the code since it makes the code more readable, and eases future changes. If Management doesn't give you time to write maintainable code (which includes keeping comments in sync with the code), then you may as well start looking for a new job because the technical debt is going to pile up and it's going to get harder and harder to meet deadlines.