Yep, a few times I had an actually hard problem and the question got maybe 15 views, no answer and just sat there dying.
However, that's probably the sort of question you won't get answered in any forum or similar. SO does very well for the trivial and semi-complicated questions – the kind where there are enough developers to have encountered the problem already to answer. And it does so in a way that appears quite high in Google's results and often comes straight to the point (i.e. the answer) – they set out to become better than expert-sex-change which hides the answer below a plethora of ads and it's only visible if you come from Google/Bing. I'd say SO's dominance here is for the better.
That's not to say there isn't anything left to improve, though :-). For trivial questions there are usually a hundred duplicates, at least one of which is often the official documentation.
That kind of thing is the problem with SO, not the ones with 5k views and hundreds of votes.