I think your question being closed is legitimate, it _is_ too broad. SO is at its core a Q&A site, and it's trying to be a _reliable_ and _responsible_ Q&A site

I think your question being closed is legitimate, it _is_ too broad. SO is at its core a Q&A site, and it's trying to be a _reliable_ and _responsible_ Q&A site. Broad questions like that don't have a single good answer that fits every scenario, they have lots of different answers, each of which is the best fit for a different scenario. The problem with a site like SO allowing questions like that is that you _would_ get an answer, that answer would be accepted, and that question would appear really high in search results. When the next person comes along needing an answer to the same question, but in a different scenario... they're gonna take the one that was given there, even though it isn't the best fit. Scale this up to SO's scale across a few years and all of a sudden SO isn't a trusted resource any more; it's more like experts exchange used to be, where it was full of answers which _can_ be valid, but are basically useless to everyone, and taking that advice can actually be actively damaging.