People are allowed to use tools and non-traditional techniques, even when it feels like cheating. They needn't be chastised for this.
The gestapo isn't going to kick in the door and haul folks away for using reverse-sear and a meat thermometer while they cook a steak in their own kitchen.
(And everyone is free to seek their own kind of masochistic pride, if that behooves them. When a person has better satisfaction [or whatever they get out of it] from doing things the hard way, then that's OK too.)
Pretty hard to be criticizing someone severely if I'm not even speaking to them specifically, don't you think? You're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
I'm entitled to my opinion, which I self-described as a bad hot take.
Sounds like you're the one specifically reprimanding me here? Oops...
My bad hot take is if you're using a meat thermometer and reverse sear to cook steak, you're like a kid on training wheels.