The point is that a programmer would first need to think about what needs to be explained or not to the average user and then explain it properly, none of which is considered as interesting as coding.
It’s not by chance that even tools with actual one line of explanation for each parameter are general of the badly documented kind (I especially like the ones were the “help” for a command doesn’t say what the bloody command actually does).
I mean, you even see this kind of meaningless “documentation” in API documentation for widelly used libraries were the documentations is generated from comments embedded in the code: “public void doStuff(int height)” => “Does stuff. Parameters - height: the input height”.
I might have put it in a humouristic way but this quite a well-known and widespread phenomenon.
The point is that a programmer would first need to think about what needs to be explained or not to the average user and then explain it properly, none of which is considered as interesting as coding.
It’s not by chance that even tools with actual one line of explanation for each parameter are general of the badly documented kind (I especially like the ones were the “help” for a command doesn’t say what the bloody command actually does).
I mean, you even see this kind of meaningless “documentation” in API documentation for widelly used libraries were the documentations is generated from comments embedded in the code: “public void doStuff(int height)” => “Does stuff. Parameters - height: the input height”.
I might have put it in a humouristic way but this quite a well-known and widespread phenomenon.