I find these discussions both entertaining and annoying. We humans unquestionably expect to be able to bend the world to our will, even when the “world” is defined by some arbitrary set of rules put forth by some faction whose intent is solely to serve their own purposes, desires, and needs, independent of a shared reality. Legumes, among other things, make you fart. Get over it.

It’s human nature to come up with ways to bend the world to our will. If you got over things, humans would’ve stayed at their initial habits and maybe perished with climate change.

On could say that grains are indigestible, leather rot and oil doesn’t explode… but we manage to cook, taw and distil. Why wouldn’t we also soak/germinated/ferment/peel the beans ?

I tend to find it in the spirit of "hacking".