A handful of this, a partial handful of that. :-)
It’s still the way the pros do it. I ran across a recipe the other day that said “A two count of EVOO.” I wondered “What the heck is a ‘two-count’?” Then it dawned on me you could “one thousand one, one thousand two”
A chef friend of mine knew it right away.
I wish I could remember Granny’s measuring system from an early Beverly Hillbillies episode. Something about two smidgens is a pinch, three pinches is a little bit, etc.