Part of the reason "how to make game X" is a bad question is because it's overly broad.

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask

Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.

Now these questions aren't terribly interesting, but they're at least reasonably scoped. Granted, they aren't exactly solving a particular problem and the asker should drill down (like you're getting at), but I don't agree that they're the same classification of question.

Part of the reason "how to make game X" is a bad question is because it's overly broad.

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask

Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.

Now these questions aren't terribly interesting, but they're at least reasonably scoped. Granted, they aren't exactly solving a particular problem and the asker should drill down (like you're getting at), but I don't agree that they're the same classification of question.