[deaton]

Definitely not better off. SO was fairly mean spirited, but nowhere else has such a vast trove of high quality answers to common software problems been collected. SO likely trained many of these models with its answers, and I don't know what software development will look like when it dies.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

No where else has such a vast trove of high quality answers been hidden because the question was closed as duplicate when someone else asked that question later.