> Why are you comparing hobbies to professional cooking? I can't tell whether you really don't understand or if you're straw manning an analogy and pretending

> Why are you comparing hobbies to professional cooking? I can't tell whether you really don't understand or if you're straw manning an analogy and pretending innocence; trolling. It's called a simile. It doesn't require all aspects of the two things being compared to be equivalent. The things are not being compared on the basis of the professional status of the "trained monkey," but on the understanding they have of the sources of the things they use.