The reality that Stack Overflow doesn't seem to want to admit is a huge number of questions are coming from people in school, MOOCs, going through tutorials, bo

The reality that Stack Overflow doesn't seem to want to admit is a huge number of questions are coming from people in school, MOOCs, going through tutorials, books, whatever the case may be, trying to learn and doing things in an intentionally suboptimal way for pedagogical purpose, even though you would never deploy such code to production. Or they're working through LeetCode or something. If an assignment says they have to do something a particular way, they don't have a choice and it's patronizing and annoying to see all the responses questioning why they're doing exactly what the assignment requires them to do. Might also point out that a lot of people finding the question later on Google because they the same question are just trying to do the same assignment, so Stack Overflow is undermining its own stated purpose here.