I knew somebody will want them back. So far you are the only one.
... and that is also expressed in newpascal release notes (see "Latest Release" news).
I remember a presentation from the Delphi 1 team in early 1995 (may be even very late 1994, but close to but before official release) where features like form/component naming and default comments were demonstrated.
Assuming my NDA is expired I remember part of the demo was - after the initial project1|form1|menu1|memo1|panel1|button1 - meaningful naming and meaningful comments.
The demonstrator (Chuck?) started expanding the default comments
{ TForm1
is the main form class for the application that contains the controls to implement the main logic} or something like that..
So here you go. That's the background. I was there. I also remember it was intended somehow for navigation, but never used in production.
I still think that it is a useful feature since its intended use. So I am definitely in the don't remove, you just didn't understand what to do with it.
It is consistent in the design of the RAD model used. You can quickly type in a meaningful comment and it saves a few brackets to type. (Ok, two..but)
So Maciej: it is a BAD idea to remove it. It discourages commenting your code....