I think they were both destructive, I kinda talk about that in the post,
<blockquote>...unspoken rule / expectation that any issue a user might run into should be solved by looking up a workaround posted to a site like StackOverflow, instead of being the software author's responsibility to fix. Unless that software author happens to be a megacorporation w/ a public-facing product in a competitive market.
</blockquote>SO lowering the bar for what it takes to publish software that people can figure out how to use