Seven separate lines of discussion totally dismissed with the wonderfully expressed:

Bollocks.

that is far *more* help

So your opinion rules here? Damn! but you credit yourself with an awful lot of say, for someone with so little evidence of ability or insight.

In my opinion -- and demonstrated by a very large and growing body of scientific evidence -- giving the raw beginner something close to what they need as a starting point and allowing them to explore it through hands-on modification, is far more helpful in getting them jump started, than pointing them at a body of comprehensive, but dry, disconnected, and 90% irrelevant to their problem, documentation; and forcing them to stare at a blank screen wondering how to get started.

But all of that is beyond your ability to reason.

My fault for engaging with a small man carrying the burden of such a big chip I suppose.