Honestly I don't mind if people don't make everything themselves as there's always going to be a line where you go "well I'm not doing that" (you're probably not milling your own flour, growing your own wheat, milking your own cows, raising your own chickens etc...).
I just think they've tried to reach a bit far for a human interest angle - it's already annoying that customers are getting shafted, that's important! We don't need to spin a yarn about little Granny Scroggins cakes disappearing from the local church fair.
But they did disappear. Your disdain for unskilled cooking doesn’t offset the fact that it still became a family tradition.
The entire point of the article is that these aren’t just corporate trash products. They stick around long enough and they get woven into the culture.
Imagine if the recipe for spam changed and destroyed a bunch of Hawaiian dishes. I suspect you wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the importance it has in their communities.
If they started selling Spam in smaller cans and there was an article complaining that it has destroyed a dish my response would be roughly the same: the company are shitty for doing shrinkflation, and the recipe isn't destroyed the person needs to adjust the quantities.
Let's not make this into something it isn't, please.
I just think they've tried to reach a bit far for a human interest angle - it's already annoying that customers are getting shafted, that's important! We don't need to spin a yarn about little Granny Scroggins cakes disappearing from the local church fair.