Absolutely. Two of the big reasons are improved understanding and problem solving skills on my part and improvements in the tech stack I use day to day making t

Absolutely. Two of the big reasons are improved understanding and problem solving skills on my part and improvements in the tech stack I use day to day making things more clear and covering more use cases cleanly. The third is that I’ve come to recognize that the average quality of answers on SO is quite poor — while they technically serve as solutions to posted problems, they often come with big caveats… use of private/deprecated APIs, hackiness, and feature misuse abound. As such when I use SO these days it’s usually not for wholesale solutions to problems but rather to add to a greater body of examples of APIs in action which I can then abstract and use as needed. It’s decent for this use case.