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As it should be.

While this pertains to posters, helping them to structure better questions, the reasoning is sound when it comes to providing assistance to those seeking help.

"Defining “why” you are looking for a solution not only gives people an opportunity to actually answer you properly but also forces you to think about the reasoning behind your thinking as well. This could also be stated as “thinking at the goal level” - tell us what the goal is, not just the assumed technical need.

"…Step back one level. By the time we are looking for advice all of us are one level too deep to know if we are asking the right question. By the time we are stuck, we’ve already gone further down the decision path than we were prepared to. So step back and ask a broader question than you think that you should."

Correlated to this, another highly quoted article from the community:

"That the question we are asking means that we should not be doing the thing we are attempting at all.
“…A question that, in its asking, exposes that the asker has gone too deep, is already on the airplane [to skydive] and didn’t learn about skydiving first.”

Frankly, I think it is a disservice, and arguably irresponsible, to dispense technical advice and know-how when you are fully aware that there may be something substandard about the “solution.”

(emphasis mine)

Exactly the point. This is exactly why the community does and should ask questions of the OP, and from time to time question the OPs methods, motives, and goals.
Maybe you get the warm fuzzy feelings from a question/answer/no discussion style forum, but I believe posters actually learn more if the community is actively questioning the roadmap behind the question. It gives the poster a chance to see how to think of a problem from possibly multiple different angles that they had not been exposed to, and to bounce ideas of professionals who don’t lack experience in specific fields. A decision process that the poster - and frankly anybody who stumbles upon the thread in later months/years - can revisit at a later time. Ya know, the whole “teach a man to fish” thing.

But nevertheless I see here in the community a lot of People recently having their nose in the clouds. And I don’t like that

Don’t mistake perceived arrogance with experience and concern; though there may be some of it.
I’ll admit sometimes I feel disdain for some askers proposing risky and irresponsible solutions to problems. That could be the same, but that’s because I lose respect for some questioners willing to perform risky procedures and fixes that they don’t fully understand because they are too ashamed to admit what they don’t know.

Be open minded. Look around you. There are so many different ways and by doing that, I learn something new every day.

Coffeemaker2. Huh. I’m somehow reminded of an old simile involving a pot, a kettle and the color black.
There are so many ways of doing things - and questioning some decisions that some askers have made leading to the question may help the asker learn new things as well.

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I mean, the questioning could easily be avoided if either the OPs asked thorough thoughtful questions with background, or read to and adhered to the recommedations (“Make sure you give enough details when asking for help”) in the Community Guidelines - which actually references the first post I linked above.
None of my comments should in any way (other than maybe include a little more information in the question) reflect on this particular OP.

Feel free to thumbs down my post; as it wasn’t really helpful to the question at hand.

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