[SomeHacker44]

I probably end up with numerous "useless" comments in my code.

That's because I write my code's doc string first (or JavaDoc or whatever), then write the body in English comments or pseudocode on rare occasion, then write the code beneath and between the conments that are my English plan.

I will also write additional comments about anything unintuitive, complex or unusual, even slightly, because I know that the code will be read many more times in the upcoming decades. (I have code I wrote in 1994 in production at one company, and another hitting its 20th anniversary this year still in production. Do you even remember libg++? Me neither, but the code still uses it...)