My experience is just the opposite: there is far too little documentation of most components and I have to scramble to places like SO and other forums to get th

My experience is just the opposite: there is far too little documentation of most components and I have to scramble to places like SO and other forums to get the basic info I need. In my experience, it's principally the big enterprise packages that suffer from the problem you describe. But, of course, YMMV.