Yeah, +1 on the comment verbosity. Left alone it's actually insane. I've had to setup enforcement + templates (use ASD-STE100) to keep the cruft down. I'm worried this may impact the quality of outputs though - haven't measured it.

I also use the ASD-STE100 trick and it works pretty great, but the places that it decides to put huge comments are really weird and a lot of the time I just ask OpenAI sol “rewrite the comments in this file without slop” and it does a much better job for comments.