I do find it kind of wild how intimidating most people I know find baking. Get a food scale and follow the directions and you're good to go and will have something respectable and delicious. As with anything, you can dive deep and go extreme with it. But baking delicious food is not rocket science.
Funny you'd say that. Other people say cooking is art, while baking is a science. No room for errors.
It is fun but it's also not universal. While every house and apartment I've lived in in the USA had an oven, the default in Japan is no oven. 1 to 3 burners, and possibly a broiler is the norm.
If you want an oven you get microwave/oven combo.
Might be similar in Korea? China? Taiwan? India?