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I should say up front that I am *not* learned in *kabbalah*.  Like, at all.  I recognize some of the words and names of sources.

From the text you quoted, it sounds like the danger of studying *kabbalah* is to the one studying it, not to other people.  This is different from, say, a modesty policy, where the content we allow (or bar) affects whether some people can use the site at all, whether our site might be blocked by certain software, and the possible challenges of attractive prurient content.  None of that seems to apply to *kabbalah*.  The only danger is that people who shouldn't be using it might be tempted to use it, but doesn't that apply to other areas too?  Won't the same people who are tempted by *kabbalah* also be tempted to self-*pasken* from answers here about kashrut or Shabbat or *lashon hara*, even though we say we don't provide *p'sak*?

If my understanding about the threat model is correct, then I don't see a reason to bar these types of questions.  There might not be very many people *interested* in them, but for those who are, why not?