In my experience, one man’s “waste of time” is another man’s castle-in-the-head-building-time-saver. At my current company, if I have reasonable, self explanatory code, such as a function with the signature “read_page(page_num: u32) -> PageData”, they’ll gather it reads a page with the given page number and extracts the data. At my last company, if I wrote the same code, I’d receive a comment on my PR complaining I did not document it will enough. I would then add a comment that somehow only I was able to detect was snarkily written, something like “// reads the given page number and returns its data” and they would be happy as clams.

I always assumed that behavior was dogmatic until, over many PRs, multiple members of the team commented that if I commented my code, it would be much easier to read. And comments of the above quality assuaged them.