> "why doesn't Arc have X?" turns out to not generally be useful.
> As a maker, complaining about stuff doesn't get you anywhere
I'm sorry, but I don't subscribe to this.
You're making a general assumption that when a person asks this style of question that they are complaining.
Maybe the reason why Arc doesn't have feature-x is asked is simply to understand the background/decision-making/technology-choices that contributed to that end. Maybe the question leads to a solution. This, in fact, makes them very good questions that this community should find valuable.
I'm making an empirical observation that the questions of this kind that I've seen have turned out, in practice, to not be useful. I'm easily disproven though -- show an example of a forum thread where a "why doesn't Arc have X?" did turn out to be useful.
I can then revise my how-to to describe which kinds of "why doesn't Arc have X?" questions are useful, or drop that part altogether.
Your thoughts certainly have merit - I bet the majority of these questions are in fact just complaints.
That said my comment is based on common sense, thus I'm not going to bother attempting to prove/disprove this kind of stuff. (edit: and I'm not requesting you change anything because your intent is also easily proven).
Changed my mind ^_^. I think the post is stronger if it makes one point ("ask how do I do X") and makes it well, without wandering off and also talking about something else.
If I think of a more cogent argument for when asking "why doesn't Arc have X?" is or isn't useful, I'll put that in another post.
