For the record, baking and cooking are... not that different? Baking uses an oven, but the principles in 'cooking' are also applied in 'baking'.
Bakers use unclear directions all the fucking time: “Cinnamon to taste.” “A pinch of salt.” If you swap out ingredients in something, you usually have to rework the recipe yourself.
People pretend baking is this strict chemistry where there are no unknown variables and that baking is entirely confusing and full of problems! But they're the same process.
Just that you're using a fucking oven to make something that is likely closer to bread or cake than you are a roast chicken with potatoes or whatever.
Honestly, baking is not “more clear” than cooking.