I find myself commenting code in a similar pattern: A small kernel of "interesting" code that has a 1:1 ratio (or higher) of comments to code, which enables the

I find myself commenting code in a similar pattern: A small kernel of "interesting" code that has a 1:1 ratio (or higher) of comments to code, which enables the rest of the codebase to be "boring" self-documenting boilerplate-y code that doesn’t really warrant much in the way of commenting.