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The quality over everything and running the noobs off users have had their way for years at this point and nothing to show for it.

In the past year, Photography has had 2 questions, Outdoors 8. No one is going to look at that and ask questions, regardless of the "quality" because the lack of activity suggests that no one would answer their question. Stackoverflow as the biggest site had something worth gatekeeping, while I can and do get better answers on FB/Reddit than I would here.

Quality is also subjective,

 - Should I use a tippet ring when using dry flys?
 - Do I need to use Color Preserver when rod building with silk?
 - How to keep eyelets from icing up?
 - What side of the spine do the guides go on?
 
There are all perfectly fine questions and would get answers on FB, they do require expert knowledge, but anyone in the fishing/rod building community would have that. Here people would complain if I didn't explain what a tippet ring is, which means that I would get higher quality answers with less effort over on FB.

Without questions, the sites will die for lack of activity, and some of the loudest voices for "quality" aren't asking any questions so why should we cater to them?

I can get faster/better answers from wider communities who have way less quality control (both FB and Reddit lack duplicate closing) for much less effort, why should I bother spending the effort here? If someone is rude to me, I can block them and never have to deal with them again.

One time on Reddit someone was asking for help with getting the first layer of his 3D-printed object to stick and not only did we solve his problem, but we told him to flip the object 180 degrees because the level of expertise was so high that we knew exactly what he was printing based off only the first layer. 

Mass has an expertise all its own, the more eyeballs the more chances someone will have of knowing the exoteric knowledge required. Instead of hoping for mystical experts who can't be bothered to Google things this site needs more users or it's going to end up more dead than it already is.