The question might not have been closed if the author had invested a bit more effort. The more it looks like a lazy one-liner the more likely it is to get closed. It's an appropriate auxiliary metric for gauging question quality. And quite frankly I find the 50 upvotes unwarranted, regardless of how clever the actual topic is.

With the answer at hand it's also obvious that the question was only ever answerable by the language designers and/or the vendors marketing department. And that IMHO legitimates the NARQ votes to some extend. "Is there a special reason?" gave the first question a subjective slant as well.

I'm wondering if it is a widespread and real proplem that valid questions get closed due to complexity and difficulty however.

The question might not have been closed if the author had invested a bit more effort. The more it looks like a lazy one-liner the more likely it is to get closed. It's an appropriate auxiliary metric for gauging question quality. And quite frankly I find the 50 upvotes unwarranted, regardless of how clever the actual topic is.

With the answer at hand it's also obvious that the question was only ever answerable by the language designers and/or the vendors marketing department. And that IMHO legitimates the NARQ votes to some extend. "Is there a special reason?" gave the first question a subjective slant as well.

I'm wondering if it is a widespread and real problem that valid questions get closed due to complexity and difficulty however.