I used to defend SO until I recently got burned by high rep gatekeepers actively preventing me from contributing (what I thought was) value to the site. And I h

I used to defend SO until I recently got burned by high rep gatekeepers actively preventing me from contributing (what I thought was) value to the site. And I have 4k+ rep myself. Now I when I see high rep users I instantly think they are out-of-touch power users who are completely unaware of how average developers use the site.