When it's a problem, you should both expect to be unemployed fairly rapidly. Progress isn't going to stop solely because you want to pick 'excessively long comments' as a hill to die on.
You're really insistent on project your personal biases onto a person and company you do not even know the identity of.
Turns out not every team has the idea of "progress" being yet another iteration of "more code submitted = better code". Some people actually desire or need to make quality products.
