I agree with you and do not understand the “I read every manual” and “I test all software” crowd. I play around with A LOT of software but I cannot test it all.

Speculation is not useless if you are saying “the answer I got makes it 99% likely that this solution will not work for me”. Curation has immense value in the world today. I investigate only the options most likely to be useful. And that still takes all my time.