I think the larger issue is why do we stubbornly try to make one thing taste like another? For the same reason that people use birth control instead of abstine

I think the larger issue is why do we stubbornly try to make one thing taste like another? For the same reason that people use birth control instead of abstinence: People like to "have their cake and eat it too." If we can get the part of something we value minus some downside we deem undesirable, we are all over it.