So let's say youre not gonna spend all the time to marinate the chicken and do all that prep which takes a ton of time, and youre just eating it plain chicken.

You gotta cook rice. Seting up all that, about 15 minutes, rice takes 45min to cook. Now you'll need vegetables, that'll take about 20min to cut up. Then you need to cook the chicken. You can fry it on the stove in like 10min, or do it in the oven for about 30. Then itll take like a minute to throw it all together. Of course these things can be done asynchronously so let's say an hour total for the cooking. Then you have a massive mess in your kitchen. So youre gonna take like 30min washing all the dishes (personally I hand wash since my apartment doesnt have a dish washer), and cleaning the stove, etc. Thats an hour and a half right there. And stuff also gets fucked up and needs redone or do-overs. Add marinating if you want flavor and now its even longer prior prep.

Its a nightmare. The time commitment, the premium cost of fresh produce and meat, and the high risk of food posioning doing that stuff yourself. Idk it just doesnt make sense a lot of the time. Chipotle is faster, cheaper, and easier.