Not this stuff again. First, the author sets the table:

If you could manipulate time and space at will, that's a superpower, but creating a day just for one's self between Monday and Tuesday isn't useful for humanity at large. You're not going to get an invite for the Avengers over that one. They might call you if they need you to run an errand on that extra private day, but at most you'd be temporarily deputized.

Anyway, it's another article about how much time people spend on food - procuring, producing, prepartng,

consuming. What could we do with all that time if we just drank Soylent? Yes, it's that stuff again. We have to pretend to care that some people who have little interest in food are drinking Ensure for Nerds. Why, what will they do with all that time?

It is nice to know that the inventor of the goop that satisfies your base nutritional needs does not mind if you use the extra time to watch television. Thank you. Thank you very much. But doesn't the end of the meal mean less time together as a family? DO NOT CONCERN YOURSELF HUMAN

Ah, this old syllogism. Here's a social construct that's been in place for a while, and is taken for granted. I am bored and like to pick apart cultural traditions like wings off flies, and since it's interesting and fun to dismantle traditions, confident something new and better will take its place because Progress!, then let's point out that the tradition's acceptance in our culture has false or misleading narratives. Why, we've only had family dinners for 150 years. Ergo we were doing something else before, and humanity survived. Why privilege the family dinner?

So really, Soylent enables a return to the carefree days of the 1600s, with a little bit of the madcap bowl-and-spoon-free 1700s tossed in.

If you're still wondering why anyone should even have to make the case for the family dinner, you're not alone, but let's push on.

No doubt an unbiased source.

The author later confesses that real food is better, but the descriptions of eating seem quite solitary. The pleasures and importance of the family meal might seem mysterious to someone who fetishizes food to the point where it's necessary to note that the salt is sea salt and has a special brand name, but doesn't seem to be sharing the experience with anyone except the remote and incorporeal internet audience.