As someone who has asked questions there (or at least tried) a few times over the years, and who does constantly end up there when searching for answers I do th

As someone who has asked questions there (or at least tried) a few times over the years, and who does constantly end up there when searching for answers I do think it's kind of heap. The two major problems I see are a) people constantly claiming that questions are duplicates when they aren't, possibly because of poor reading comprehension, skimming, or some sort of Dunning-Kruger type effect, and b) people re-asking questions because they know an existing identical or almost identical question doesn't actually have a correct or useful answer and not really knowing what they're supposed to do about it, particularly as occasional or new SO users. After those, is the inability of people to comment on answers until they're judged worthy which makes it so people feel forced to use answers as comments. While I think the site continues to be useful it also seems to be something of an intractable morass.