And yet compare to one of the oldest questions on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/746/format-string-to-tit...

Today that question would be downvoted as a bad question, and so would many of the answers.

It's kicking out the ladder after you've climbed it and is hostile to anyone learning to program today.

All those questions you deride as "useless" is someone who is struggling to do something, who takes the time to ask for help and gets downvoted and hostility in return.