its not a lesser food (well maybe specifically mcdonalds), its different food.

are you arguing there is no point to transformative cooking to make something diff as it would be lesser than it originally was?

thats like saying why bother trying to make an apple pie, when you can just eat apples.

also your proportions are whack, have you had a breaded chicken burger? for the most part its externally coating the chicken breast patty with a breading/seasoning mixture and frying it.

you arent padding the meat mixture like say a meatloaf.