That's not really true. If you're talking about 10-15 years ago, there was a lot less to know and worry about. There were fewer companies making fewer models. There were a lot fewer upgrade parts as well. There was only one battery chemistry (NiCad) until the late 90s, and the switch from NiCad to NiMH was pretty much plug-and-play compared to the switch from NiMH to LiPo. There were no spread-spectrum transmitters, brushless motors, or complicated ESCs that required programming. Availability was also a lot lower, pre-internet. Back then, your local hobby shop probably stocked a dozen or so models, and for your first car you probably just picked what you could afford from their limited selection. Having easy access to hundreds of models online is convenient, but it leaves a new user spoiled for choice. All the advances in technology and abundance of manufacturers gives you more choices, provides much higher performance, and drives down prices through competition. But it also makes things significantly more complicated for a new user, and those new users are going to ask questions. You have to take the bad with the good.

I'm sure you learned a lot by staring at broken cars for hours, trying to figure out how to fix them before online resources were available. There's a lot to be said for doing it the hard way. But let me ask you this - If you had a community of several hundred experienced users to ask for help when you were starting out, would you have asked, or would you have just spent several hours being frustrated instead of actually running your car? Utilizing all the resources at your disposal isn't lazy, it's smart.

If simply seeing questions being posted bothers you so much (after all, nobody is making you answer them), then perhaps you should voice your support for [link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_9808564/tm.htm]my suggestion[/link] to add a beginners forum to the car/truck section. Then you could skip that forum entirely and you wouldn't be annoyed by the lazy newbies.