[amarant]

Surely part of that is because most tech related questions have already been asked and answered on SO. I'd say a decline in new question is stack overflow working as designed. A large part of what makes SO so good is the searchability of old questions. There will always be new questions to ask, as new technologies confuse Devs in new ways, but to expect new questions to be asked at the same rate as peak is to misunderstand what SO is at it's core.

But that's just like, my opinion, dude.

[stevage]

That explanation totally fails to account for SO's usage suddenly falling off a cliff as soon as ChatGPT arrived on the scene.

[whimsicalism]

because the answer to so many questions can be distilled from the content already on SO

[zenolijo]

With one quite significant issue IMO

If there's an old question the most upvoted answer will be at the top. Better solutions are often available if the previous answer was 10 years ago, but they will be buried.

Solution is obviously to scroll down as well as read the comments, but that can be time consuming.