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The person asking the question is frequently not the person with the knowledge to determine this.

The X-Y response shows up frequently on support forums where people are asking questions that show they haven't yet grasped the system they are working on.

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X-Y "answerers" also show up on simple, straightforward questions there are no reasons to demand a backstory for.

X-Y answers also clog up Google search results when sometimes my problem literally actually is X and not Y.

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