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Tangent, is it a Swift thing to have "* ################################################################## / comment markers ?
It becomes quickly very visually dominant in the source code:

> / ###################################################################################################################################### / // MARK: - PUBLIC BASE CLASS OVERRIDES - / ###################################################################################################################################### */

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Nope. It's a "Me" thing. I write code that I want to see. I have fairly big files, and it makes it easy to scroll through, quickly. It also displays well, when compiling with docc or Jazzy.

My comment/blank line-to-code ratio is about 50/50. Most of my comments are method/function/property headerdoc/docc labels.

Here's the cloc on the middle project:

    github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.04  T=0.03 s (1319.9 files/s, 468842.4 lines/s)
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Language                     files          blank        comment           code
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Swift                           33           1737           4765           5220
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    SUM:                            33           1737           4765           5220
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

i see lots of python with blocks like

    ###############################################################################
    ############################### LIBRARY IMPORTS ###############################
    ###############################################################################

    import sys
    from pathlib import Path

(not in this case but) it helps me for long files where modularization would be inconvenient

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