When Attwood and Spolsky founded it, they commented on it being because Experts Exchange was hostile to users. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3656581

If StackOverflow is being considered hostile now it's big ... well, Google the three stages of enshittification I suppose.

Ah I miss the old days of expert sex change.com

To be fair not really but it’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time and all it took was to scroll down to the end of the page to get your answer.

Real 20 year ago internet there.