The alternative is to just call the sort function and add a comment if the reason why it's being sorted isn't obvious rather than making a new function so that the function name can act as the comment.

I just see "never do x, no exceptions" as overly constraining yourself when sometimes a comment might be a better option than jumping through a hoop that involves having a function named "sortRandomAPIResults" just to avoid ever using a comment. Even goto statements have cases where you get better code from just using goto than everything required to avoid it.

Better to understand the purpose of the thing you are doing and to be aware of the pitfalls using it might subject you to. Yeah, there are a ton of comments out there that are useless or even misleading, but there are helpful ones, like if a function encodes some data for some specific spec, a comment that includes information about that spec can help. Like url for documentation, or a description of the relevant fields it's filling in. Yeah, you could get that from data structures and looking at the code, but it's a bit more mental effort to do that, plus it assumes the code is correctly doing what the programmer intended it to do.

If some code looks very close to some standard math thing but is slightly different, is that a bug, a way that this case differs from the usual case, or an optimization? Iirc Carmack introduced some optimisations for 3d rendering doom that even he wasn't fully aware of how they worked, just that they were able to test the output over the range of relevant inputs and determined that it always gave a solution that was good enough to be able to skip some slower method that was easier to understand.

And there's also language barriers. Some code that looks very descriptive to you might not be so obvious to someone who isn't a native speaker or even just has sufficient cultural differences to not pick up on a reference. I'd bet that translation tools, that don't always do great at translating meaning rather than words, will struggle even more if that meaning is encoded in C++ as well as English.