The whole restaurant experience forced me to get more into cooking for myself because the value is just not there.

Low and behold it is actually fun to cook. It is actually more fun to be able to make a new dish yourself than to try a new restaurant. It is amusing how everything DIY is cool in hacker culture besides cooking. For no reason besides custom, people pretend they just don't have time to cook or that learning to cook isn't worth it. It is an obviously thoughtless idea.

Having less time to doom scroll your phone is a feature and not a bug.