One metric I would have liked to see was whether people were more or less able to find _good_ answers to questions. A lot of times my questions are answered wit

One metric I would have liked to see was whether people were more or less able to find _good_ answers to questions. A lot of times my questions are answered with "you shouldn't do that" and usually, I know that it is bad, but turn to SO for tricky stuff. I can't change things like the build process or build scripts easily at work for example, I want to know how to adapt to it instead of getting told me how wrong I am. I mostly code in C/C++ and the number of meaningful answers to my questions has declined over the years. Maybe I don't ask stuff as trivial as I used to but I just can't accept as many answers as I used to, despite community's pressure to "work on my acceptance rate". I end up accepting the answer that helped me the most, even if it was very little help.