In essence we're strict on topicality rules because any Q&A platform with only questions and no answers, is useless.

Unfortunately there are many more people asking questions, many new ones every day even, but far fewer people actively answering them.

Therefore the site rules, the badges and points, the community moderation tools, the actual moderators, they all exist for a single purpose: to retain the most valuable resource on any Q&A platform; the people actively answering questions.

They, I, we want interesting questions about our chosen topic, our profession even.

In essence we're strict on topicality rules because any Q&A platform with only questions and no answers, is useless.

Unfortunately there are many more people asking questions, many new ones every day even, but far fewer people actively answering them.

Therefore the site rules, the badges and points, the community moderation tools, the actual moderators, they all exist for a single purpose: to retain the most valuable resource on any Q&A platform; the people actively answering questions.

They, I, we want to see interesting questions about our chosen topic, our profession even.

People want usefull answers and our mantra is good questions get good answers. Not so good questions get put on hold to allow the OP to edit and improve (or get migrated to a more suitable site) and the bad get voted down and deleted.
Admittedly you don't always need a great question to generate great answers but the number of questions coming in requires us to lean towards being too strict rather than too generous. But please flag and/or vote to reopen any closed question that you do want to write that great answer to. Those options exist specifically for that purpose and should be used. Please leave comment when you do so to clarify that.