I agree with you. It's always easier to ignore comments than to not have them and trying to figure out stuff. I vastly prefer a 100 line function with comments every ten lines about what is to happen next to twenty, five line functions with "great" names (they never are), that are sprinkled about the whole file making the whole thing a case study in reinventing the goto statement. Though it often seems many people consider the later to be "better" and "self-documenting" code.

To be fair though, three line comments for every member seems a bit excessive to me as well.