we want to focus on improving the current process here to something more constructive that encourages the asker to refine their question in a different way

That assumes that the question the user is trying to ask belongs on the site. We still need basic off-topic close options for when it doesn't.

Even open-ended questions need to be open-ended programming questions. Taking questions from Seasoned Advice and posting them on Stack Overflow in the "Advice" system is not appropriate and deserves closure and deletion, exactly like conventional Q/A.

And the same is also true for non-programming computer usage, video games, consumer electronics, home improvement, etc.