When it's a problem, you should both expect to be unemployed fairly rapidly. Progress isn't going to stop solely because you want to pick 'excessively long comments' as a hill to die on.
You're really insistent on project your personal biases onto a person and company you do not even know the identity of.
Turns out not every team has the idea of "progress" being yet another iteration of "more code submitted = better code". Some people actually desire or need to make quality products.
Its not petty is, Im not changing our standards because people got hot new toys. These are code policies we've had. If your AI usage can not conform to them, that's on you, not me.
Why can't people just follow the guidelines. You really want to get into a fight over not following established and agreed upon guidelines and code quality standards?