[tuyiown]

That's an interesting take.

Especially that more and more toolchain always comments with formatted contents to runnable example snippet that can be checked by tests, that can be extracted and formatted to be consulted otherwise.

I suspect that the common use of greying it out is that it's hard to concentrate to both code and reading comments, the priority given to code and remove distraction.

Maybe there's a dedicated UI to invent, something that would even more remove comment distraction to just indicate their presence, and provide a handy access to the content in a nicely formatted way without disturbing the main code view.

[arp242]

The default Vim colourscheme has comments in blue, and they stand out rather than fade away. I don't know if Vim is an exception or if this sort of thing was more common in the past, but this always seemed right to me (actually, being designed for 8/16 colour terminals means there probably wasn't really much of an option).

I do have a few lines in my vimrc to make "///" and "##" appear as greyed out; I use this mostly for "literate programming"-ish type of comments, which don't need to stand out so much. It works very well for me, although for other people it looks like it's a "mistake".