We need to be very clear that the specific thing the author is objecting to is mandatory javadoc - the adding of comments which are just copies of the function name in English and convey no non-obvious information. These are definitely unnecessary for those reading the code. They should only be put in if there are consumers of the API who can only read the javadoc and function signatures, not the code.

(On my Visual Studio theme, comments are green on a dark grey background. What's the significance? Probably none.)