This is a pretty good example of a probably pretty common phenomenon whereby different people have drastically different experiences about what's, nominally at

This is a pretty good example of a probably pretty common phenomenon whereby different people have drastically different experiences about what's, nominally at least, 'the same thing'. I've definitely noticed what you described and I've spent some not-entirely-insignificant amount of time fighting it on the meta site. But I've also had a pretty nice experience with other portions (e.g. tags) of the site.