I’d assume most? I got one in university shortly after I moved out, and since combining kitchens with my wife and getting a more precise scale for coffee, now have several more than I actually need.

I bake like once a year, and even discounting my daily coffee, I still use a scale several times a week.

There are lots of tools that it's not reasonable to expect a random home kitchen to have -- expensive grinders and mixers, mortar and pestle, double boilers, marble rolling pin to press out pastry, etc. But a kitchen scale is just a huge win for any kitchen. They don't take much space, they're not at all expensive, and it takes less time to convert "half a cup of flour" into grams using your phone than it does to wash the measuring cup.

While I agree there's more to baking that mixing stuffin a bowl a scale only gets you in the right ballpark, when baking from ingredient there's always some variation in temp or humidity or ingredients that screw you over compared to an industrial process or even a professional bakery with controlled environment and supplies. The rest comes from experience I guess.

I really hope that's said somewhat sarcastically. I pessimistically assume not though.

You're right. To do things you need tools. If you're gonna bake, a scale is a useful tool. It's a pretty small hurdle to jump.

I guess it's funny that on this site there are long threads about rooting phones, or restoring old hardware, or using assembler to patch old software, but also threads which laud the use of cake-mixes and treat baking as Impossible because, you know, no scales...

Mickey D's is also a whole lot more popular than home-made burgers. Proof of their quality according to your logic, I guess.

I've baked many delicious cakes using the standard flour. For some recipes it will matter, for many it's not as big of a difference in the final result.