You can say how you wish comments were done, but in practice a section of code with a lot of comments tends to indicate unresolved complexity. The worst is when you can tell the original author used comments to indicate how they wished the code worked, but it doesn't. Sometimes the comments are from the next maintainer trying to figure out what the hell is going on because there is a bug in there somewhere.

The other problem with comments is multiple maintenance. It's very common for a change to be made to the code but not the comment. Now you've got lies misleading the next poor developer who dives in there.

Documentation comments can be useful, but I cringe when I see lots of comments per block or statement.

> Humans aren't good at reading code.

That's something you can get better at, but it requires discipline and effort. Programmers who have no intention of getting better at it think the comments will save them.