Well, FWIW after decades of programming, I find it useful to include a lot of comments. I also find that they get in my way. If you've ever read "Programming P

Well, FWIW after decades of programming, I find it useful to include a lot of comments. I also find that they get in my way. If you've ever read "Programming Pearls", you've seen how code that looks fine can have all sorts of subtle issues. In my experience, this is common, not rare. We just miss most of it. When I go back over code I've written, I see new things every time, sometimes because I've used the code in practice (different in various ways from what I expected), sometimes just with "fresh eyes", sometimes with "newbie eyes" ("Why would I do B before A..?"). I notice things I missed before. I miss things I noticed before. And very often bugs exist because I didn't think of something. As soon as I think of it, it's not enough to eliminate it in code and pretend I was right all along, I want to leave a note pointing out the thing I overlooked, even though it might sound obvious when stated. Etc. So many little things I learn about the code over time. I can write them down or leave future readers to the whims of fate. If I'll be the future reader, I write them down right where they are most relevant. I also want to be able to glance over my code and quickly know exactly how it works. I don't want to figure anything out if it can just remind me. So, yes, definitely my comments are higher level than the code, to make them quicker to comprehend at a glance, but they sometimes drop down from the "why" into the "how". So then, I have lots of useful comments that for my own code, I'm definitely going to keep. But the comments accumulate as the knowledge accumulates, and it can become annoyingly cluttered. Sometimes I want to see them, and sometimes I don't. (I always try to find ways for the code to "absorb" some of my comments, breaking a composite expression into steps with explanatory variable names, for example, but there are still lots of comments.) So, I want more sophisticated showing and hiding of comments from my code editor. I want to click a key and make all comments vanish. Nothing but the code, neat and tidy. Another click, and I see abbreviated comments, remember this, watch out for that, consider whatever.... Then maybe a mouse click on a link in one of the comments to bring up more details. Ah, yes. Key click, and all comments gone again. VS Code, I'm hoping....