Nah nah. This is all accurate. However the difference is, you buy it, you eat it, you enjoy the hell out of it.
Then after dinner, you tell your kids they can have the rest for dessert. And since there’s one piece left, you have the last piece like a hoss. Then it’s gone within a days work, and you can pretend it never happens while the kids think it was the best day ever and it’s a win win situation.
I’d argue the biggest thing stopping most people from doing this is laziness. Which is great.
Even getting to the store to buy a cake is the only way we do it, making one is too much work (for casual bored cake consumption).
Probably purely the fact that when we go to the store we don’t have store bought cake on the mind, i we don’t buy it.