Problem is docs are often out of date. Either old, or too new if you have to use an older version. So you can spend hours chasing your tail because what the docs and examples say works, doesn’t.

I did say "first", as in the first place you check and not saying you never have to go elsewhere.

"often" is doing some heavy lifting here. Stack overflow and yes looking at source code are useful tools, but the vast majority of the time, the "stack overflow coders" completely eschewed the official documentation when reading it would have not only provided then the information they needed but also helped then develop an intuition for how a library worked that would have served them much better.

Of course I mostly take issue with the blog presenting the experience of a "stack overflow coder" as a universal experience when it was just the experience of incompetents.