It's a funny one, but as others have said, you can get so caught up in the other areas of Slap, but especially with covid and staying at home, this has become a place to share knowledge and (for me at least) try to help people with skateboard related things, seeing as it has been my life for the last XXX decades...
I think too there has often been some heated arguments over what is better, but there is also a lot of personal perspective that goes with that, and working in a skate shop is somewhere you have to be more objective overall, compared to just pushing your own preferred brands on everyone.