Research takes too long if you have access to sources directly. Documentation is rigid, and assumes the reader has some level of familiarity and state. Growing

Research takes too long if you have access to sources directly. Documentation is rigid, and assumes the reader has some level of familiarity and state. Growing up on the Internet has led, for me, to have a very eclectic and fragmented knowledge base. Speaking with someone affords me to skip all the BS and more precisely target the information I'm after, it also gives the other person the opportunity to spot and fix XY problems, or to refer me to somewhere that will be more fruitful. Also, I don't know where the threshold for "polite" is. I can research something for a decade, and people will still be frustrated with me.