I don't see anything wrong with sharing the information about a shot, equipment used, settings, etc., and in terms of an overall saving of "man-hours," no longer than it takes a person to list the information in a post, it would seem to be pretty beneficial to do that rather than having several hundred people go to the exif data for the information. I feel it can be extremely useful and enlightening to see what another photographer uses and does to capture an image, especially a motion shot. Careful analysis can remind one of some fundamental technique and can even allow another photographer to improve upon what was done previously if nothing else. In fact, I think it's very beneficial for a beginner but I also think the more a person knows, the more he/she can derive from careful analysis of an image and then the specs that went into making an image. It never hurts to review and hone ones technique and admiring and fully appreciating the work of others has an extremely positive effect on future outcome. Now, if you are a person who shoots only one subject over and over and has no aspiration to be more versatile it does limit what others can glean from your work so there'd be little use in studying some photographers work repeatedly since it doesn't change. But in today's climate of the ability to experiment inexpensively as many of us choose to shoot a lot of different subject matter, it can be very beneficial to study what others do in various genres and it certainly helps even an experienced person to be able to analyze the works of others with an eye toward improving their own efforts. It's like many other areas of life, the more information you have, the more you can learn and know which leads to the expansion of your talent. You never know what another person gets from knowing what you did in making an image. Inspiration is a strange and elusive thing but many of us are inspired by those around us and it would clearly be disingenuous to deny that.

First off: any "photographer" in 2018 worthy of the title has software installed on their computer(s) to read the EXIF ... Most everyone spending time listing out the data available in the EXIF hasn't yet earned their photographer card for 2018 ...

Second, you know full well this site is more of a social site with a focus (mostly) on photography. Judging the performance of the general crowd is not a way to judge a photographer ... see 1st point as a reminder, as needed.

Why would you care about anyone else’s EXIF? I don’t care about yours. I care about your *images* that reach out, grab me, and tell me something! I don’t care how you communicate. The message is more important than the medium.

It’s highly unlikely that your settings would educate me, or anyone, without the context of being there at the time of exposure.

I DO occasionally look at my EXIF data to figure out what went right or wrong with a file. But it’s always in reference to what I experienced at the point of photography.