Is asking “why” on language specs still considered as “primary opinion-based” if it can have offical answers? Long-time readers of my blog or my answers on SO know that this whole area is a peeve of mine. The fundamental problem with the "why" question is not that the answer is an opinion....

I was just wondering how proper of a question this is for StackOverflow? I get questions like that a lot, and I discourage you from asking them. Most people ask this question in a form that is not answerable. Every question of the form "why does product X not implement feature Y?" has the s...