Great points. I had similar thoughts about the "corpus" of questions/answers already being formed and naturally leading to a tapering of new ones.

k00b

That measures "questions asked" (i.e., new question posts).  Why ask a question when a search returns the answer?

It's not just AI that made Stack Overflow die, it's

tech

Stack overflow is almost dead

That measures "questions asked" (i.e., new question posts).  Why ask a question when a search returns the answer?

It's not just AI that made Stack Overflow die, it's

- having to press the "Accept Cookies" prompt, 
- the  "Are you a human being?" CAPTCHAs
- the Questions showing the Green Checkmark (i.e., Answered) and the answer was: "Figured it out, guys .... thanks" (and nothing more).

