[bhauer]

You may be weird, but you're not alone. I too think this looks perfectly normal. I have written similar-looking code and comments (at least from a high-level point of view) for any components that I feel are critical to the reliability of the system. I've never subscribed to the "no comments" fad since my own comments have all too often been invaluable to future me when returning to the code after months or years of attention elsewhere. I can't imagine trying to piece together all of the embedded logic in a component of this complexity without solid comments.