I'd argue that it's worse because now you have no idea what the actual original context was, just the AI's hallucination of it.
The difference with AI is that the agent becomes the first level of triage. It (many times) asks the easy initial questions (did you turn it off and on again?) so I don't have to. Doesn't always work like this, but often enough.
Maybe SO really is full of rude, condescending gatekeepers - I haven't asked questions there much.
I haven't personally seen much evidence of it, though, despite decades of winding up there when searching for programming information.
If everyone thinks their question will get closed, it might as well be reality because no one is going to ask and they are going to go elsewhere. Which is exactly what happened.