I feel you, Amy! I write code comments for nearly 100% of my code, including explanatory comments in test files, so 50% of my lines of production code are comments.
But I inherited a 200-file codebase with a total 3 code comments, without even any clarifying commit messages. And that seems to be the norm in the industry, unfortunately!
Even the junior engineer I'm mentoring currently seems allergic to writing code comments or lengthy commit messages, but honestly I'd be happy if she just stuck to the acceptance criteria in the tickets at this point.