My favorite thing about SO is when a valid "solution" (workaround) stops working because the functions used get depreciated, and you're left with the original problem four years later, fucking MySQL.

I once had a person ask a question on a library I made. They asked how to unit test the library. I answered it and got downvoted because my answer wasn't the accepted answer.

That takes reading from existing users.

Also not all answers are perennial for a question. So it makes sense to ask them again. In that case, closing a question as duplicate is absurd.

I think it's far less of a problem when users can't put in the bare minimum

compared to mods who can't even put in the bare minimum and provide a link when they belive they found a duplicate.