Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late?

I feel programming is like voting, if people aren't motivated to do it, I don't want them in the profession (or at the polls).

That's why I hate the "Get out the vote" efforts as well as "Teach people to code" movements. I'd like to see more self-motivated people that are interested in coding (not a well-paying job). I think this is what's happened to the law profession, too many lawyers that didn't want to practice law, just people who wanted a big paycheck and a couple of letters at the end of the name.

I think a lot of these new users asking dumb questions are those types of people, they shouldn't be in the profession imo.

Loads of comments and replies, basically being in denial that there is any sort of problem, telling us why it is better this way, and why it shouldn't change. Not addressing (or even acknowledging) the problem any way.

If a question has a few hundred upvotes, and gets closed by one moderator because it is off topic/ not constructive in his opinion, then the site is failing (in this instance) at what it claims to be good at.

What got me to stop using it on a regular basis (twice) was the unwillingness of the devs to provide tools to ignore the trash and the inability to ask any even remotely useful question on grounds that they're opinion-based.