"Every institution fails due to an excess of it's own first principle."

I have watched/experienced SO go from a super useful/helpful site with a balance that pitted people's desire to be recognized with a desire to be helped, and slowly be subsumed by those overbent on organization and bureaucracy. And is it did so, it became less useful, to me as a questioner as well as an answerer.

Now I have to put up with stochastic parroting from GPTs to try and steer me in the right direction. Yay.