We have three cast iron skillets that see nearly daily use. You are exactly right on this. Ours get, scrubbed, wiped, soaped, and cleaned as needed but just us

We have three cast iron skillets that see nearly daily use. You are exactly right on this. Ours get, scrubbed, wiped, soaped, and cleaned as needed but just use and constant reseasoning is all it takes to make them look and cook gorgeously. Our parents (in particular) are terrified of the damn pans. Of caring for them of using them. They have this trope in their heads that is just a feedback loop… they see them as fragile so they treat them as fragile so they become fragile. Just cook at home more, preferably bacon. Lots of mechanical things are meant to be used, pans, cars, homes. Letting them sit unused causes more decay