Ah! It shouldn't be... and yet...

In the U.S., many people living in urban areas have NO access to fresh food within walking distance. The little market on the corner carries canned and packaged foods. Maybe some expensive fruit, maybe (so, buy an apple, or buy a box of macaroni and cheese that feeds the family, hmmmm). And if they bring fresh food back to the apartment or rented room, there may not be a kitchen. Best case, a cheap dorm-style microwave and small fridge. And then, these folks were never brought up in a house with a real kitchen so they don't even know the methods they should be using, so they can't figure out workarounds.

Sorry to lecture! I had exactly the same views you did until a few years ago. I grew up in a real house with fresh food and homemade meals and a mother who taught me to cook and had TIME to do all that. I didn't think of it as priviliged, I just thought it was how people lived. ☹️