During the state machine extraction every comment that referenced
a specific commit in the plan (skeleton / 14a / 14b / 'future
commit') was useful — it told you which commit a line appeared
in and what was about to change. Once the refactor landed those
notes became noise: they describe history nobody needs while
reading the current code.
Rewrites keep the rationale (no-op handlers still explain WHY
they're no-ops, Loop=Next / video auto-fit still have their
explanations) and preserves the load-bearing commit 14b reference
in _dispatch_and_apply's docstring — that one actually does
protect future-you from reintroducing the bug-by-typo pattern.
pax
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