I promise you nobody felt entitled to have an asshole respond to their question. Probably they'd rather it go left unattended.

"XY problem" meme where "insufferable, pedantic forum culture where posters refuse to answer the actual question" is a thing for a reason.

Plus the closing out of questions because that were "already asked" but not really, or the answers were ancient and out-of-date but it was impossible to boost the correct, modern answer high enough to compete with the 500pt bogus answer..

The problem wasn't the people asking questions, it was STACK OVERFLOW getting people on the internet to answer questions for free and completely failing to establish and enforce community standards and culture.