This is the likely real reason - employer provided meals are a big deductible and providing the proper documentation and management of expenses can be a good kickback on providing that perk.
However, once an employee starts putting expenses that won't pass the smell test, it could threaten the perk.
> then keep adding until it looks and feels right".
I think something of value that a lot of cooking/baking education misses is showing what it looks like when it's wrong at various stages.
A deflated loaf of bread could have 2-3 reasons why it looks bad but you'd only be able to know what exactly went wrong by knowing at what stage it was wrong(such as insufficient kneading).
At some point, you just try to make it with whatever you think "a handful" is and measure when you do.
If you fail, you note and adjust.
After a while, you know that it's situational - unless it's salt or leavening agents(yeast, baking powder, etc.), there is a bit of wiggle room to adjust things.
To give you a vignette in my job - I am right now debugging a piece of open source code that had some auth changes at sometime in the last several months with no changes in the docs to suggest a config change is needed. I have to figure out how 3-4 different frameworks are resulting in this not working.
If my boss messaged me right now and handed me something that required a similar data structure change, I'd stumble on it for about an hour or two until I understood that actual problem.
I'm sure I could "invert" a binary tree if I had to but it'd probably take a far more than reasonable time as that just isn't something I'm dealing with nor most rank and file devs.
I am not imagining myself part of the local population. Of course I am just a tourist staying there for a few days, I am talking about how it "feels to me". If you want all your travel to be based on hotels, your choice, I prefer homes. Hotels are cold, impersonal places. Anyway, I never rented AirBnb in US, only in large cities in other countries across EU and in Japan.
What you imagine or feel is irrelevant - if the housing you were in wasn't an Airbnb, it'd likely be occupied by a permanent resident.
That person, for better or worse, would be part of a community and contribute to it.
At some point, a community resembles swiss-cheese because so many people who would otherwise be in the community are absent because the housing they'd live in is absent. AirBNB's are just one part of this equation though.
If the technology is allowed under free-use or a free limited license, that'll change things.
Right now, no one can put it on their saws without having to either risk the patent fight or pay whatever Sawstop wants, with the later probably being so high, there is a reason other brands don't have "Equipped with sawstop technology!" badged on them.
I wish it could just say "There is not a good approximation of this API existing - I would suggest reviewing the following docs/sources:....".