That's because they started paying people to post questions, which is completely absurd since the real value is in the answers. Unfortunately, as predicted by

That's because they started paying people to post questions, which is completely absurd since the real value is in the answers. Unfortunately, as predicted by pretty much everyone, it led to a massive influx of generic, repetitive, and trivial questions spammed endlessly to the top writers who have now stopped contributing. Most questions are just spam sinkholes in an endless battle by fake accounts for top position.