[patrick451]

With doc strings, a lot of this is driven by linters that require you to write a doc string. People are in a hurry and don't like writing documentation, or what the function does just seems obvious, so they throw a doc string together that just rewords the function name and its arguments into passable English so the linter will shut up.

This is just one of many ways that running tools like pylint in CI can make your code worse.