In response to my own question, based upon the discussion in the comments...

According to the About page, questions relating to anything in a development environment are off topic.

When a question is closed as off topic, it gets the following explanation added

When you click on the FAQ link, you are told this:

The FAQ conflicts with the reason for closing message, because if you compare the type of question I'm talking about here to the explanation in the FAQ:

If your question is about..

Yep

and is not about...

Nope

…then you’re in the right place to ask your question!

Adding three words or development environment to the FAQ will clear this up.

I'm not talking about an insignificant number of questions that are affected by this, I believe it a substantial proportion of questions in the Close votes review queue, that are closed as off topic.

In response to my own question, based upon the discussion in the comments...

According to the About page, questions relating to anything in a development environment are off topic.

When a question is closed as off topic, it gets the following explanation added

When you click on the FAQ link, you are told this:

The FAQ conflicts with the reason for closing message, because if you compare the type of question I'm talking about here to the explanation in the FAQ:

If your question is about..

Yep

and is not about...

Nope

…then you’re in the right place to ask your question!

Woohoo! I'm allowed to ask my question about the development environment on my desktop PC!

Adding three words or development environment to the FAQ will clear this up.

I'm not talking about an insignificant number of questions that are affected by this, I believe it a substantial proportion of questions in the Close votes review queue, that are closed as off topic.

In response to the discussion in the comments above...

According to the About page, questions relating to anything in a development environment are off topic.

When a question is closed as off topic, it gets the following explanation added

When you click on the FAQ link, you are told this:

The FAQ conflicts with the reason for closing message, because if you compare the type of question I'm talking about here to the explanation in the FAQ:

If your question is about..

Yep

and is not about...

Nope

…then you’re in the right place to ask your question!

Adding three words or development environment to the FAQ will clear this up.

I'm not talking about an insignificant number of questions that are affected by this, I believe it a substantial proportion of questions in the Close votes review queue, that are closed as off topic.

In response to my own question, based upon the discussion in the comments...

According to the About page, questions relating to anything in a development environment are off topic.

When a question is closed as off topic, it gets the following explanation added

When you click on the FAQ link, you are told this:

The FAQ conflicts with the reason for closing message, because if you compare the type of question I'm talking about here to the explanation in the FAQ:

If your question is about..

Yep

and is not about...

Nope

…then you’re in the right place to ask your question!

Adding three words or development environment to the FAQ will clear this up.

I'm not talking about an insignificant number of questions that are affected by this, I believe it a substantial proportion of questions in the Close votes review queue, that are closed as off topic.