Heirloom tomatoes absolutely are different and better in a lot of instances. They’re also easily available at every grocery store for marginally more than a shit hothouse slicer tomato.

The bag he feels so threatened by is like two thousand dollars lol, he’s acting like its lean cuisine

That’s french cooking, Michelin star meals do involve more skill and knowledge than “more butter, more garlic”. Not so much more that you can’t replicate most of it at home, but, just to emphasise how bad a choice of analogy this was, the bits that are too complex to do in your kitchen require specialised machines.