I am old. I find what you wrote resonates with my SO experience, and, in my antiquity, I wonder, grumpily, why "RTFM" isn't faster than stack overflow, and i think the answer is the quality of the manuals to 'freaking' read has decreased. I'm just old enough to realize the Unix manpages were excellent in proprietary Unixes, and then the Linux manpages got complicated by some emacs based reader. Anyway, Unix manpages used to be a quality go-to in order to answer questions, BSD and Sun (BSD and SysV variants) and NeXT and Sequent etc. I'm still inclined to do that, but it's not always adequate.