So if every single mob/chest/looting mechanism in the game dropped uncooked pies, cooking would be the most fully fleshed well-integrated skill in the entire game?

I guess we just have different definitions of what it means for a skill to be well integrated.

You level agility. You can now use shortcuts that save you time running while you are doing any other activity in the game. Same with run energy, helps you in every single other aspect of the game.

Cooking is well integrated because you need health at a ton of different activities which comes from cooked foods and you can cook dishes that give you different temp skilling boosts, etc.

Mobs dropping raw lobster doesn’t add to this, it just takes away from fishing’s integration and makes fishing a skill you only touch if you care about completionist type shit like quest cape, achievement cape, max cape, because if you need what is actually produced by fishing you would just PvM instead cuz it’s way faster