This is survivorship biased and does not pertain to software or tech exclusively. Same think happens everywhere: from any niche informational space to rumors on social media. What is most interesting to me it can cut you twice, because you don’t see 2 things: other advice by silent expert, that can be as good or better, but also when most popular advice fails in practice for someone, other than the author. Thus not only you are missing out on not seeing the best, but you also maybe looking at something subpar, because there is no efficient feedback loop that would differentiate appropriately.