You are overgeneralising. There is bad commenting, yes, but you yourself listed several examples of when comments are needed: if we continued, this could be a l

You are overgeneralising. There is bad commenting, yes, but you yourself listed several examples of when comments are needed: if we continued, this could be a long thread. Sometimes you need comments explaining an API that you are using, because its workings are not immediately obvious. Then the smell is not coming from your code but from the code you're calling.