Which circles back to not understanding the process. There are things you can learn about and look up, there are other things that are shailos. You can learn all you want and that will cut down your shailos but it doesn’t make them go away.
You seem to think that asking is to get information you don’t have. It’s about getting a resolution you are not qualified to make.
You also seem to think we wake up in the morning and submit our questions to a rabbi de jour. When you have a rav, you hear his shmoozin or his opinions or messages and you know how to proceed. If it’s your shul rav, he may get up and speak on purim conduct or madks, or listening to election podvasts. Then you know his opinion and follow it. You don’t have to call him and say, “what do i do about masks?”.
So there may or may not have bern shailos because many/most reveived tshuvos before the need to ask. And those who did have no need to post it here.
This is the tip of the iceberg. Very nice that you learn with someone who lives according to daas torah, my advice was to ask him how it works.