Yea, this is a deal breaker imo. My code tends to be 10 to 1 comments to lines of code ratio. Configuration even more so.

jsonc/json5 exists for this use case, but few tools actually use it, yaml is far more popular

I knew lightning could strike horizontally and downward. But never realized it could go up. That just seems so weird to me.

I guess it’s less strange than ball lightning though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning