It's not worth the time or effort to cook and is more expensive than just eating out. All fast food joints have apps with frequent deals and coupons making it much more affordable and practical.

Everytime i see a complaint about this game, it's turns out to be some redditor shitter whose ego is too fragile to just lower the difficulty. They'll cope and pretend that their complaint has to do with lore accuracy but in reality they just don't want hard modes to be hard. Shitters always have an excuse and they never try to improve or adapt.