I think some contributing factors are: 1) a lot of questions have been answered. How often do you ask something that is answered by a 2010-2014 answer very wel

I think some contributing factors are: 1) a lot of questions have been answered. How often do you ask something that is answered by a 2010-2014 answer very well? IME, often 2) programming isn’t as niche as it used to be. these days, a lot of SO is just asking for free labour on very niche questions like an exception someone is getting. which was never the point of SO there’s a wealth of answers on SO historically, which are great. But I don’t remember the last time I used SO to answer a specific question for a recent software tool, or relied on any post-2021 question/answer