I am on SO for 14 years and collaterally accumulated some 200k of rep. I am an amateur dev and SO helped me tremendously to overcome problems that are obvious

I am on SO for 14 years and collaterally accumulated some 200k of rep. I am an amateur dev and SO helped me tremendously to overcome problems that are obvious after some time. But at the time they were blocking. Some questions I asked were brilliant :) and some were nightmarish. SO usually got it right. Except some of the tags that are toxic to the point I do not even try to ask a question there because of the immediate down votes and patronizing. I am looking at you Golang (Go). It would be better, I think, if the rep of the asker was more prominent. Voting down a question that *I* think is useless when asked by someone with 20x my rep is an indication that maybe I am wrong. Also I never understood what the downvote is for because the description tells about quality and usefulness, but it is often actually used to say that you do not agree. Requiring a reason for the downvote may help.