What about how if someone has read the docs and could answer the question would become motivated to write up what they think because they see someone is interested in knowing? Losing that opportunity for sharing knowledge is, in my mind, worse than having the question not appear at all.

And lazy? Since when is asking questions is lazy?

People are reading a lot of intent from what was a very plain and straightforward question. What I think would be valuable would be if someone shared why the mere presence of such questions is somehow detrimental to the point that they can't simply be ignored, which I don't think has yet been explained.