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It seems to me the level this comic is at is such that anyone who needs an aid like this would not be capable of providing a meaningful review on the pull request.

If the goal is to encourage rubber-stamping by bystanders, it might help.

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It's valuable to make a difficult task easier, even for those who could do the task without the help.

I'd rather just have a high-level summary in English for that.

This seems to take dumbing-down beyond any sensible level.

People who dumb down seem to think it's easier to be dumb. Not everyone seems to agree, fortunately.

Is it making it easier? I feel like having to parse a comic like this is more cognitively demanding than just RTFCode, and I'd still have to review the code afterward to confirm its accuracy and whether the approach is sensical.

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