NTF5: in addition, other forums have features that will skim posts for whether or not that content already exists. In other communities, including (interestingly) Ubuntu's, it encourages individual research through some level of personal guilt, because it sends a message of "I can't believe you didn't type this into the search bar, way to go." However, as you said, that would require work that may never be invested. It would also take away from the whole "do your own research without someone telling you first" approach
To his credit, though, this thread's creator is a consistent advocate for new users' questions.
Trying to really understand the backends that are now completely overshadowed by frontends (power managers and the like) is quite confusing. There are questions that you never knew to ask until certain situations arise. Sometimes there are small search terms or principles that you may be blissfully unaware of, traces of obscure features in the backend that may not be immediately obvious, even after reading and personal research.
What I've seen change the most in seven years of using some form of linux is the priority on frontends with convoluted backends; it was a practice that I find disinteresting and brought me to Debian in the first place, and paradoxically, the distro I chose as a way to get around that is now suffering from that root cause. Because of systemd, for example, one cannot easily use a desktop environment's power or session manager without either relying on systemd utilities (I think the big one was libpam/policykit-1 or something), or blindly crapshooting through other utilities which may or may not be related to one's issue, finding unrelated posts and users who post simple answers, too. Let's be fair: how much has power management and network interfacing changed in the last few years? (And which company had the greatest influence in determining that change? Countless documentations are now completely obsolete, but not because users demanded they be, and not because it solved any user-driven issues, either.) I find it understandable that most users face this and succumb to an easier route, even if that route is abandoning linux, because if the answers lie beneath layers of corporate decisions, there's really no difference.
And in defense of the oblivious and the oblivious-to-be, it's also understandable why these simple questions will overwhelm our communities, because users want a nice frontend -- until it stops working. Unlike RHEL Enterprise users, they will have no one who gets paid to answer questions, and will increasingly rely on volunteers: aka, us. RHEL makes money off this for the same reasons as Apple and Volkswagen; easy solutions are not a profitable industry.
Unfortunately, there is no Debian paid support, yet Debian's ecosystem is now rooted in new layers of a corporate distribution's actions. Here we are back at the original point. The impetus behind this thread's original post exemplifies the dead optimism that comes to life in the same way as a mannequin: namely, there is no linux revolution in an environment where corporate interests take precedence. If users are the revolution, it is clear that Debian novices are not interested in revolt, and those who are have begun other projects or invested themselves in other Debian derivatives.
I don't see that changing.