While you're not wrong, this doesn't speak at all to the issue that the OP is expressing. While you might think his/her style is messy, it should still be valid. Commented-out code should behave the same way as deleted code.
> Commented-out code should behave the same way as deleted code.
But it did, that's not the problem the author encountered.
The issue wasn't that commented code caused a behavior change, it's that uncommented-but-assumed-unused code caused a behavior change. The only thing that got commented out was the markup that originally invoked said code.
