maint(clang-tidy): Improve code readability with explicit boolean casts (#3148)

* maint(clang-tidy) Improve code readability

* Fix minor typos

* Revert optimization that removed test case

* Fix comment formatting

* Revert another optimization to repro an issue

* Remove make_unique since it C++14 and newer only

* eformat comments

* Fix unsignedness of comparison

* Update comment