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I usually get closed questions but the answers are often useful.

I don't see why "closed" as such is problem. I could interpret it as "someone asked this question and it's been answer, we're moving on".

Sometimes I find an answer on a random web forum - if the forum still permits answers, there will 20 or 100 pages to look through and the usually the only good things will be right after the question.

The web at scale is just messy and cruel.

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Open questions can get updated if there is new information (years later: "BTW, since version 7.3 this workaround isn't necessary anymore/this has been renamed to/...")

Closed as "out of scope"/"duplicate" isn't saying "this is finished, moving on", but "don't ask this kind of thing, go somewhere else, even if you probably would get a good answer to your related question here".

Incorrect. Closed questions (and answers) can be edited even by anonymous users.

Voting is also possible on closed questions and answers.

Interesting, wouldn't even have tried that, motivational aspects ("This obviously isn't wanted, why invest in it?") aside.

If the reason for closing the question is that it's already been answered then why not simply redirect to the answer? What is the point of having a dead-end?

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