When you're a college student cramped in a dorm or a low-income family on a tight budget, you don't have a personal chef that can grate fresh cheese and cook it over elbow macaroni like Michelle can.
Boxed mac and cheese isn't designed to be part of a gourmet dinner. It's designed for busy families, whiny hungry children, teenagers, and people watching their food budget.
I understand that. But boxed mac and cheese is horrible - and I speak as someone who likes boxed potato flakes. It should only be for people who are poor, desperate and unemployed given our Obama economy. For them, I have total sympathy and respect.
The point is, though, that it isn’t any of her business.
You cite two extremes: poor people and someone who has a chef. I’m talking about ordinary middle-class people who can afford to buy a box of pasta and some cheese and make a white sauce. It’s the first thing I learned to cook - in Home Economics back in the 1970s. If poor people can only afford boxed mac, that’s fine.