> Against some volunteer who's encountering their fourteenth clear XY problem of the day.

Fourteenth clear as imagined in their head XY problem of the day.

By far most of the "XY problems" I saw, on SO or elsewhere, were actually "XY problem problems" - i.e. a responder having so limited imagination and character (or, to be charitable, just running very low on energy and focus), that upon coming across a question they couldn't comprehend, they would assume the person asking the question must be confused instead.