Which comes from the people that can’t be bothered to read a few instructions and get familiar with a site before barging in and demanding their homework be done for them.
This whole “unfriendly to newbies” myth is a false red herring. SE is unfriendly to those can’t follow directions or don’t care enough to bother because the world owes them an answer. That’s a Good Thing. These are not the users we want.
The only real problem is that they complain, and management that thinks more users is always better tries to “fix” the problem. That’s a management problem, not a user treatment problem.