It is rare to find code that comprehensively explains (without comments) why it exists, or often more importantly, why some superficially-equivalent code doesn’t exist there.

Comments when done correctly are vital.

Some languages like golang, doesn't priorities concise code, it often takes a few lines to do something trivial. Find the object in a list with the lowest lexicographical ranked value of some property.

The code to do this is simple, but not concise, leaving a comment so I can scan the function and skip 5-10 lines doing something trivial is nice.

This sounds like a self-fulfilling prophesy. If only think comments are for telling you what a line of code does literally, then you're only going to see comments where the code is obscure. If you use it as a form of high-level communication to help the user understand the broader context and reasoning behind code (like at the top of the linked page), then it will be useful because the person writing the comments understands why documenting your code is a good thing.