Think about it this way:   how well does a telephone directory describe a town?

When I am looking at the documentation for a piece of computer software, sometimes I am looking for a directory. I really do just want to know where a particular place or thing is. But... not most of the time. In fact, almost never. No.

What I really want is:   to read the original developer's thoughts. I want to get a glimpse of her intent when she designed and then wrote that particular piece of code. Truly, the final software is very-much an expression of that, and this is something that no amount of computer-generated recyclables will tell me.