It is literally reactionary in the political sense. It's retvrn mindset applied to food and it's bad. Now, you do also need to learn the rules before breaking them but that's like you gotta be good at curried chicken and tacos before going for a curried chicken taco. I can also add, if we were going full in and genuinely making shit you'd otherwise have to go to Italy to eat, I could understand being a stickler, but being trad brained on recipes invented in the 60s is dumb as hell. Also I do think being open to experimenting with different culinary traditions vs being full on trad recipe (this mostly applies to French and Italian food. Colonized people holding onto traditional recipes is a big part of maintaining culture) does reflect on your values outside of food. Food is possibly the most political thing and it's history is historical materialism.