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Sure, but then the advice we should give is "please please document the WHY", rather than "stop commenting"

In any case, I personally find it very useful when I come to a new piece of code to find comments that summarise what it's happening in a few words without having to parse 10-100 lines of dense implementation - I have so much cognitive ability I can apply in one day, and any effort to optimise its usage should be welcome