[drobilla]

No offence, but this is incredibly naïve, and it's kind of obviously an opinion that simply stems from working on things that just aren't that conceptually complicated. Some things are actually conceptually complicated, and the why is not at all obvious from the what, no matter how finely you slice the what. Code, inherently, describes what. A sparse set of higher level proper sentence comments describing the purpose of the overall goal for the next part is practically required to make code like this actually comprehensible. For some things, something approaching Literate Programming is best, which is nearly the polar opposite of "comments are bad".

Implementing an advanced data structure is a good example of this. Things that took theoreticians some time to discover, and write/publish in a paper, are not things a random programmer is just going to inherently know from a completely uncommented implementation.

Extrapolating "all comments are bad" from a few examples of pointless comments on mind-numbingly simple and obvious code (which are indeed bad) is silly.