I have some concerns that this may lead to increased duplication of topics, which is a FAR more difficult issue.
At the moment if you try searching “duplicate view” you get a list of 50+ topics. Which one of those is useful and leads the next person facing this problem to a solution? Who knows as half of them have solutions and the other can’t have multiple solutions so complete solutions are often not readily clear, or entirely exposed.
Right now we take the route of allowing users to ask a clarifying question in a way which expands on completeness of the solution we get better information to the 3rd person asking the question (another 5 years from now) faster. If we pivot to closing topics diverting users to start new topics we get into a situation where the ‘complete solution’ is now spread over 2 or more threads, making it harder for the nth person to get thing sorted out.
I’m fine moving which ever way the community wants, but please be sure we’re certain that the devil we know (a 5 year old post being resurfaced to ask for more info, and going un-responded) may be far worse than the alternative (increased fragmentation of the larger body of knowledge).