Tooling open-ended-questions: broadening scope from "unique to software development"?

With the new plan being shaped for open-ended questions, we the community are being asked to weigh in on the site scope and close reasons. It sounds like we should relax the old "unique to software development" close reason somehow, to leave open more questions about "software tools commonly used by programmers", perhaps by tagging them with the new special tags. Should we really, and if so, how?

For example, questions about use and configuration of software containers, web servers, database servers, CLI utilities, embedded hardware tools, etc etc.

For reference, this is our current scope criteria:

[...] if your question generally covers…

• one or more of:

• a specific programming problem, or

• a software algorithm, or

• software tools commonly used by programmers;

• and is a practical, answerable problem that is unique to software development

…then you’re in the right place to ask your question!

Some have always been allowed, but many have been closed in the past for not being a problem unique to software development. There was discussion about this part of the scope earlier this year: Why are questions about software tools that are not unique to software development off-topic?. In the previous experiment with uncurated open-ended questions, these were left open under "Tooling", I believe. (Though they're also a sort of "how-to", just not how to program something, it's how to use a tool.)

It sounds like, at least temporarily, old Tooling questions will be transformed into regular questions tagged with the tooling-recommendation tag.

Which tool use questions should we:

• close, or

• retag, or

• migrate (they're often also on-topic on one or more other Stack Exchange sites)

and how should we (re)word this close reason?

Another way to put this, do we now allow:

Should I use for this task?

But not:

What options do I use for to accomplish this task?

Or should something about that change? We've been told:

Put simply, this expansion is needed if we want Stack Overflow to persist. Traditional Q&A will always have an important and central place, and any user is welcome to restrict their focus to that. The proposed usage of tags will make that fairly easy. But a broader scope for the site is the path forward.

and asked:

Do the remaining closure options make sense? Should some be updated, or removed? [...]

Does “on-topic” mean something different for open-ended questions? Let’s not pretend that there’s ever been universal consensus about the boundary of “about programming or software development”. What does it mean to remain true to the spirit of the site’s focus while allowing for more types of questions?