I have to agree with you because what you said is true yet it is not an absolute truth.

Baking requires a lot more commitement and precision but with enough experience you can salvage most recipes and even make a few by eye measurements.

And after a while, again, given enough experience, you can develop an intuitive grasp of which ingredients and what quantities combined achieve such texture or flavour and you can experiment with a good degree of confidence you will no be binning the end results.