Agreed.
(Though it's not as easy as a béchamel, and yet I still see people buy jarred alfredo sauces. You can literally make an amazing alfredo sauce with pantry ingredients in less time than it takes to boil the noodles! Why would anyone buy an alfredo sauce!?)
Although this more or less is my point. If people are willing to give up these incredibly high reward, low effort skills - how much more uphill is the battle to make people code and process data?
> Why would anyone buy an alfredo sauce!?
Ignorance aside, jarred sauces are sorta shelf stable, and I have occasionally run out of butter and milk.