All of the "comments are useless because they get out of date" folks should look at this code, which is still comprehensible 40 years later because of the comments.
I do agree with you though that commenting is a good thing.
With just the slightest amount of professionalism, you can keep them up to date, and only a real psychopath would update code without updating the comments directly above it.
(So, of course, 50% of programmers don't...)
Recent contract at a big Fortune50 company, and they forbid developers from using comments - "any code that you think needs some explanation should be put in a separate readme file in a 'docs' directory off of the root" - how can that be better, or more useful, than a couple of lines of comments right above the code in question?
They didn't want us to use comments, because they were afraid the code would change, and the comments would become out of date - so put those comments in a separate file, that almost nobody will remember to read, much less update, and that would solve the problem.
You can't make this stuff up, utter insanity.