I feel the same way. Maybe it's because I came to programming in a roundabout way (i.e., no formal training), but I just see JSDoc-style annotations as wasted

I feel the same way. Maybe it's because I came to programming in a roundabout way (i.e., no formal training), but I just see JSDoc-style annotations as wasted characters. Again, maybe just me. But, my brain doesn't parse them unless the code is already extremely well structured. In which case, why include annotations at all? Or in other words, isn't it always better just to improve the readability of the function itself?