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Often the issue is that what was decent advice five years ago can become horrible advice later, but the formerly decent advice is already moderated to the top on Stack Overflow and Reddit and is the first hit on a Google search, while the approach that people should be using now just isn't found.

You'll often find horribly complex multi-step instructions for How to Do X ranked more highly than simple instructions about how to use a new interface to do everything in one step, because there was a window of time when the complex instructions were required, everyone was so grateful for them and upvoted them.