It requires more precision, sure, but there are absolutely bakers who can taste a dough and tweak the water/flour/oil etc. ratios to get the perfect bread.
It’s only different from other kinds of cooking because most people haven’t developed those senses. If you knew what you were doing, you could bake from scratch without a recipe easily and go by “vibes” (i.e. based on sensory input).
As much as I want to call out bootlickers, it would honestly be weirder if they didn’t continue the tradition.
Headline might as well be “Trump first president to prefer Diet Coke.”