It's nothing new - I was to many many forums and eventually they all degraded.
I mean all topics are discussed, guys with like 1000 posts say something like "we've discussed it." , "check search button" and so on. And that's it, forum becames a library

Gradually such forums turn into such a mess, that i just leave and look for a relatively new forum, where you can discuss something.


It may not be the case here, but it's possible