One of the bad side-effects of this is the effect on "free" support channels like GCP SO tags. Questions rarely get answered, and you often will get an "answer"

One of the bad side-effects of this is the effect on "free" support channels like GCP SO tags. Questions rarely get answered, and you often will get an "answer" reminding you this is a volunteer forum. This can be quite bad when the question is "what does error xyz mean and why is it crashing everything". It makes community driven support a no-go