what gets me is that the people most skeptical of these bottles are also the people spending $6 on cold brew and $4 on "functional" mushroom whatever every single day. at least hydrogen water isn't caffeinated

Maybe the real skill is knowing how to use the right tools? Carpenters don't make their own hammers, chefs don't grow their own ingredients, programmers don't write their own programming languages... knowing how/when to use tools IS the skill