Why do people buy instant oats at 10-25x the price of a bag of oats?
Oats are already instant, you can just pour normal oats and milk into a bowl and microwave it! Buy them rolled and let them sit in the microwave a little more if you want them goopier. I actually like my oats extra solid so I microwave jumbo oats for like 30s and consume.
This is the attack of "microwave popcorn" all over again.
If I was putin and I didn't want the pipe I would do the third dimension clever chess move of just turning it off, or like.. not building it.