I was an open source developer, advocate and user long before WordPress was even around, to this day I'm one of the few people I know that still does all his development on a Linux machine so I get the open source ethos. Yet back when the Linux project first started Linus actually chose to use a proprietary version control system for an open source project instead of using SVN because that was the tool most of the serious guys on his team were using, he didn't care about only using free stuff, he cared about the community that already existed, it wasn't until much later in the project's history that he would eventually invent Git from the things he liked about this proprietary tool over what he didn't like in SVN.

My point in all of this is to say that AWP was never intended as a replacement for .org or stack overflow, it was a place to have a discussion where I knew other devs already existed and we all came together with a 20 dev group that eventually ballooned to 7000+. There is nothing wrong with that, and I get the idea that people want to search for an answer that was given 6 months ago but why not ask again? If you asked me 6 months ago which caching solution I use for WordPress my answer would have been Varnish but that's totally different than it is today with me only using Redis for caching my sites. Forget what the old answer was and ask again, our opinions do change all of the time.

I'm personally not looking to build a reputation on a stack overflow page which is itself proprietary service that does a better job of having Google catalog it's content, it's also not lazy to say that I'm not looking to spend all of my time on .org answering forum questions because personally I use AWP mostly for sharing stuff that I discovered, cool stuff, fun stuff, code snippets or gists etc. My point is in not caring about garnering attention or reputation I helped create a group that has done just that, it really is amazing what you can do when you don't care who or what project gets the credit.

There is a world of development outside of WordPress and a world outside of .org and stack overflow that we can all learn from, this idea that Quality is getting wasted because folks are not sharing stuff on the 'official' place to share it or in the place that you spend most of your time on is kind of silly. Crowds will aggregate where they want to aggregate and for me or anyone to think that we can or should control that is hogwash honestly and goes against the very ethos of OSS to use whatever tool you want or need when you want it even if like Linus you use a closed tool in order to eventually perfect an open one.