// I'm not really that dumb, there is a reason.

I spent a year making my company's iOS apps accessible (meaning usable for the blind and people with vision disabilities). I had to do a lot of weird shit either because of bugs in Apple's VoiceOver technology or because of the strange way in which our code base was broken up into modules (some of which I did not have access to) and I would always put in comments explaining why I was doing what I was doing. The guy doing code review and merges would always just remove my comments (without any other changes) because he felt that not only were comments unnecessary but also they were a "code smell" indicating professional incompetence. I feel sorry for whoever had to deal with that stuff at a later point.

Out management used to tell us, that even if head of department had committed to doing something some way, there's no way or need to hold them accountable. It's just that situation has changed, and nobody should bat an eye.

To be fair, they also did not pressure us much for the missed deadlines or missing features, because it was indeed the result of the situation described in the first paragraph