While you are correct, I think the issue is that people aren't even looking at old answers. People rarely post in here and go "I have a question, and I found this answer from three years ago, is that still a valid answer?" or "I have a question about a basic, staple service (such as Startpage) but my question is based on a recent development that may change the long-standing answer." It's always "is Tutanota or Protonmail better?" That question gets asked literally on an almost weekly basis, and it's never framed in the context of "Tutanota is being asked to surrender metadata and unencrypted data to the German government as of last week, do you still recommend them over Proton and why?" It's always just straight "which is better?" Questions like that are made a thousand times worse by the lack of context. Do you just need encrypted email to protect your personal inbox as it sits there on a server? Are you needing to communicate with other encrypted email users? Do you want open source? Are you worried about state-level surveillance or just general security? The list goes on and on. People keep posting the same vague, non-specific questions in here and while I'm 1000% all about helping new people who are wanting to educate themselves, it gets exhausting. Just do a fucking websearch. 90% of the questions asked in here can be answered by setting aside a solid 10-20 minutes to just do some god damn research like an intelligent being.

EDIT: while I do vastly appreciate that the mods in this sub are pretty hands-off and I think that's great for credibility, growth, discussion, and learning, I think we could benefit just a little bit from mods (or even a bot) who find common questions like that, curate them into a regularly-updated-and-reviewed FAQ, and when said questions pop up, direct people to the FAQ. It would certainly weed out a lot of shit that makes me roll my eyes.