They say there are two hard things in computer science and 'naming things' is one of them. Every benefit you listed is legit, yet not even the sum of them can

They say there are two hard things in computer science and 'naming things' is one of them. Every benefit you listed is legit, yet not even the sum of them can compensate for the loss of fidelity and lack of human scalability which results from using 'TODO' for everything. Anyone competent enough to edit code can handle holding 'seven plus or minus two' types of comment tags in their head. Those who can't (or, more often, who can't be bothered to) aren't suffering from impostor syndrome. They might actually simply be impostors.