We need to make informed choices

Lukewarm take: if you don’t make some effort to clean up as you cook, you’re not competent to enough to be in the kitchen.

~Just my opinion; don’t burn me at the stake.~

Agreed, came here to say this. Clean as you cook. Not always super easy or possible, but if you’re waiting for something to finish/warm up/cool down/whatever, you can probably wash a cutting board or some spoons or something
It’s really just an amortization, or perhaps, an atomization of effort; sadly many don’t really value the benefits of that behavior.