I appreciate your attempt to defend this position and I, and others, wish you good luck. In my many decades of working with humans writing code it simply has never happened.
I've worked at places (early on) that were basically cowboy coding -- zero code review, global variables everywhere, not a comment or test to be seen. Obviously you can't enforce good comments there.
And I've worked at places that were 100% professional -- design documents, full code review, proper design, tests, full comments and comments kept fully up-to-date just like code.
It's just the culture and professionalism. If proper comments are enforced through code review, they happen. Ultimately, the head of engineering just decides whether it's part of policy or not. It's not hard. It's just a top-down decision.
