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. Unix manpages used to be a quality go-to in order to answer questions. I'm still inclined to do that, but it's not always adequate.