StackOverflow is surprisingly bad and doesn’t really have good new questions, that is true. But the other sites are much more helpful. You just have to understand that it’s a QA site for nontrivial questions (i.e you cannot solve by just googling or reading the docs), not a forum for discussion
I actually almost posted something this week due to some weird segfaults I was having with a third-party library, but the github maintainer was active and responded in his issues list. So, crisis averted.
One of my funniest stories from my time there is how I once closed a question as off-topic (it was) and several years later googled to find one result which was the same question flagged by yours truly (it was still off-topic but the irony wasn't lost).
SE is really a great service especially the smaller niche sites, it just gets a bad rep by the small "elite" few.
[0] - https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40377/blender
The Blender site gets ~50 questions a day. The Emacs site gets ~6 questions a day (with a total of 25k questions in eight and a half years, only about a fortnight of Stack Overflow).
It's just a completely different thing at those scales. It's the difference between a forum with maybe a few hundred people and Twitter.
So calling it "surprisingly bad" isn't fair. I still think it is surprisingly good.
What does that mean? Do you browse new questions for entertainment?