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by gn4d 160 days ago
I am fully aware that it's split off. My entire point of mentioning it was that even a bit of extra fun got excised from the site.

>The issue is that code golf didn't fit well into the intended design

Exactly! The intended design of SO was to be a hellhole, even though it was able to stave off this fate in its infancy by virtue of having too many optimistic new users.