Remember that Google is not showing the results the same way to everyone. Maybe others near me are more likely to click on the SO response so I get that one ranked higher, and less likely to click on the reference documentation, so I get targeted the same way.

Maybe if I let Google learn my patterns instead of disabling all the tracking I can, it'd give me better results.

FWIW, I get similar results with DDG, but Google wins hands-down on non-English searches.