Does this suggest that there's actually a finite limit on the number of questions? When SO mods in the Linux/Unix stackexchange started closing questions as du

Does this suggest that there's actually a finite limit on the number of questions? When SO mods in the Linux/Unix stackexchange started closing questions as dupes, the questions that survived became highly focused, and I believe arrived slower. Narrow focus makes the answers less generally relevant. A culture of arrogant moderation also crept in, probably due to fatigue from dealing with dupes, and the close reading it takes to discern those dupes.