[jimmaswell]

This is basically never been the case for me. Once or twice I got an answer that suggested a deprecated API call, which I could then just google the replacement for and use that. I don't have any complaint about StackOverflow personally.

[Theodores]

If you are on the bleeding edge of the new shiny then you won't have this problem that I am seeing. But the guy supporting your code in five years time might.

To some extent the problem depends on how new and shiny your stuff is.

[jimmaswell]

My experience has been the same ranging from questions about C, C#, JS, Python, and many others.