And he has bosses. And are they okay with some whatever being an obstacle to work getting done? Probably not.

That's on him to handle and it hasn't been a problem.

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.

"Progress"