What you're supposed to do is write the code as clearly as possible and then add comments for anything you couldn't manage to express in the code. Usually that'd be all the context around why the code is the way it is and isn't the way it isn't.

Now this is something I could never do. Or find in other people's code. I much rather appreciate the good comment explaining to me WTF is going on, annotating the larger segments, and so on. Of course it might just be my personal limitation as a programmer that's far from the best in the craft. But to me, comments are the most time tested.

There's lots of important information that comments can convey which code itself cannot. In particular, a program's code can tell you how it works but not why it was designed to work that way.

And after a point, even trying to convey too much information about how a program works through code can be cumbersome. We've all seen function names that are way too long, because the author wanted to cram way too much information into it. That extra information should have been put into a comment, where the author could have articulated it clearly, instead of as a single overlong compound verb in camel case.