All for valid criticism (and your comment may be tongue in cheek) but seriously - complaining about something that EVERY platform will have to some extent boggles the mind.

Heck - even X and Facebook have help articles explaining how to post.

Bit like "New improved recipe" = we have found some cheaper ingredients and production methods.

I don't disagree with you.
It most certainly used to be a lot busier years back.

Just making the point that over there, it utterly died when they changed things.
It has recovered a little since then, but many of the main posters just left.

or got banned for nothing 😞    I said a couple of  weeks ago that i could see Ebay doing away with these boards.

I think it will be run by bots 

My guess is that only Mentors will be able to respond.........

I am, of course, just guessing

Surely 99.5% of replies to questions have been robot scripted  for years. No offence to the team but working as intended springs to mind. Privately Kat has helped me.(keeping head down now}

Perhaps an independent discussion group might spring up, hosted outside of Ebay's reaches?

When the SD conversations  were ongoing and all the criticisms of eBay were allowed on here I questioned why they hosted a board which roasts them every day. The answer appearing to be: better to be in control of the boards than have an independent discussion board.

That said, it would be better all round if they used the boards as a sort of suggestion box which they can focus their teams on fixing issues raised and they certainly don't do that. New boards would be very low on the list as mentioned by others.