It wasn't a problem in the early 2010s because the moderator migration feature to actually move questions was more readily available then. They just deprecated it's use because of concerns about dumping poor quality questions as the size and number of sites grew. So unless the question is already extremely high quality -- which essentially zero questions ever are -- they just exclusively close them.
So it comes back to not doing anything to make asking higher quality questions important. The site is designed to be an open field filled with land mines.
So it comes back to not doing anything to make asking higher quality questions important. The site is designed to be an open field filled with land mines.