I'll also add...I've been on other cooking forums, some general cooking and some specialty things, and I think compared to other cooking forum members, we're all "normal," because seeing a man carrying a giant platter of no doubt extremely expensive steaks is normal...for us. Or taking all day to smoke some ribs, or all day to make a beautifully-decorated cake. Hey, it's what food-focused folks do!
But compared to a lot of people, people who eat to live (as opposed to living to eat), we probably all seem "atrociously outlandish" at times. Most of my online friends cook spaghetti and red sauce, but the sauce is from a jar, and it's a bagged salad, bottled salad dressing, and that's fine, but you're not going to turn any heads that way. To them, simmering a sauce all day and making your own dressing from scratch and actually thinking about what goes in the salad is...atrociously outlandish.
Matter of fact, I made a loaf of bread once, very pleased with it, and sent a pic to a friend, who sent back her loaf of bread...which had been made from store-bought frozen dough. Nothing wrong with that, but her comment was, "Who has time to make bread from scratch? Duh!"
They say the pandemic has led to a resurgence in home-cooking. That may be true, but I'll bet it hasn't led to a resurgence in homemade cooking. That's still too much trouble for most of the people I know.