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There are less and less general questions because most of them have been answered already. If I see a question like that either I give a link to the docs or mark as duplicate. There's no point in writing such long answers if the information already exists somewhere else.

StackOverflow once tried to do an interesting community experiment around replicating documentation on everything but it lacked guidance / self-direction and they cancelled it.

I can't agree this more, once a moderator quoted about this in a moderation room: "I'm starting to become concerned that this room is somehow promoting the idea that all questions need to have an MCVE and/or that debugging questions are the only questions that are on-topic for Stack Overflow. That is not only wrong, it's horribly wrong, dangerously wrong. So I step in and correct this misconception as often as I can."