Im not denying its usefulness for Q&A on docs/code as a search tool. Im talking about people who use it design and write their code, people who are offloading problem solving altogether, they aren't faster.

Yea man. That is what sensible people do. Use these as a better search, and use it to lookup, and learn stuff while YOU do stuff.

And make maximum use of it to learn as much as possible, while it lasts...