99% of the value of StackOverflow for me as an older developer is just finding workarounds to bugs in platforms/APIs/tools that people have run into before me.

99% of the value of StackOverflow for me as an older developer is just finding workarounds to bugs in platforms/APIs/tools that people have run into before me. Example: Compiler throws error 0x19822943 on what looks like valid code. Googling the error code along with the compiler name almost invariably returns stackoverflow results near the top, so I look at the post(s) with answers and see "Oh yeah this is a known issue, upgrade to version 1.29 and it goes away". For all the issues I have with the site it is still pretty great for these sorts of problems that should be covered in the support documentation for whatever it is that failed (but often isn't -- or isn't in a way that google is likely to find it easily).