Screaming into the void of the blogosphere is catharsis for getting my SO question closed.
And because I know you're all nosy, the SO question is here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79605462/high-cpu-usage-... . Please feel free to point out more ways in which I screwed up asking my SO question.
I will say, this is a level of question that is too sophisticated for SO, and likely will only have an answer once you figure it out and go back and answer your question.
Are you confident the code is the issue--have you repro'd it consistently with different versions of .NET? What about reproing on different machines? Locally?
Could it be that, for years, they've been selecting for things like:
- Low friction onboarding
- Upvoting “easy wins” and thought experiments over real-world, in-the-trenches problems
- Penalizing questions that didn’t fit the format—even when those of us around since the early days knew they’d likely get good answers within a few days
- Incentivizing moderators to strictly enforce rules that, frankly, weren’t necessarily great to begin with
Just a thought.