not exactly an answer to what you ask but I wanted to share this knowledge: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/recipe
its a standard(ish) schema that many popular recipe websites use, so you can very easily parse them and do unit conversions
I think (reading aint my cup of tea so I do what I can) that the idea is that the majority of the people are easily swayed
one could argue that this is the case now with the amount of capitalist and anti-leftist projections
and the idea to fix the root cause of the above is tackled by each revolution-worthy system - education, free time, access to knowledge, etc.
though youve got a very good point that if we depend on stupid people to build something better, were buiding it on/with stupid people
good discussion subject, I'll take it to my friends