It sounds like the blogging portions are usually added for SEO purposes since a lot of those people use their blogs as their job so they need to optimize for cl

It sounds like the blogging portions are usually added for SEO purposes since a lot of those people use their blogs as their job so they need to optimize for clicks, I don't view that as an issue even if the quality is debatable. Regardless of their reasoning, the concern isn't that it won't be as good without the blogging content, it's that the recipes people will add here will inevitably include some from other sites just missing their extra stuff, which means it's drawing away traffic from their original work without them getting any credit/ad revenue for it.