Comment by debugnik

> and when I asked why it did that even though I expressedly asked it not to

Just be clear, it can't know, and by asking you're just making it roleplay as someone excusing themselves.

It's very unlikely that the choice to remove the comment was driven by an internal monologue based on learned criteria that it can refer to. The sampler most likely picked tokens to remove it while writing the patch, because that's what the statistics modelled, and that's it.