Really? I buy the argument that doing what you set out to do is not always best, but I find most questions answered with 'Well, you could do this, but really, y

Really? I buy the argument that doing what you set out to do is not always best, but I find most questions answered with 'Well, you could do this, but really, you want to do this...' on SO in cases like those. Sometimes they are not the accepted answers, but it's rare it's not the top voted one.