I share your doubts. For instance, I have a URL saved on my home computer where the (admittedly non-universal) HN consensus was that the CLRS algorithms book recommended here is not a great one to learn from.
However, I think your faith that it's easy to find good recommendations by subject matter experts underestimates the difficulty of finding them in the mass of things on the internet. To take one example, I remember reading a post about two approaches to denotational semantics, along with recommendations about the best textbooks, but have never subsequently been able to find that link.
However, I think your faith that it's easy to find good recommendations by subject matter experts underestimates the difficulty of finding them in the mass of things on the internet. To take one example, I remember reading a post about two approaches to denotational semantics, along with recommendations about the best textbooks, but have never subsequently been able to find that link.