...please note that we plan to retire certain curation workflows, such as close votes and most review queues...

I have to come back shortly from retirement for this. It's an interesting experiment and we will learn something from it. My guess is that SO will become a largely chatty place with very low concentration of knowledge. And traffic will be further plummeting because ultimately neither information seekers nor experts will want to read through all the casual chats. Nobody here will support you. In half a year you will be asking yourself why that didn't work and then maybe the reactions here will start making sense. But it will likely be too late to change anything. Everyone will be gone.

Or not. As said above: interesting experiment.

And as typical for the last years, no discussion about it before.

...please note that we plan to retire certain curation workflows, such as close votes and most review queues...

I have to come back shortly from retirement for this. It's an interesting experiment and we will learn something from it. My guess is that SO will become a largely chatty place with very low concentration of knowledge. And traffic will be further plummeting because ultimately neither information seekers nor experts will want to read through all the casual chats. Nobody here will support you. In half a year you will be asking yourself why that didn't work and then maybe the reactions here will start making sense. But it will likely be too late to change anything. Everyone will be gone.

Or not. As said above: interesting experiment (but not in a positive, promising sense, more in a, this will likely once and forever prove how bad forums are sense).

And as typical for the last years, no discussion about it before.