I used divided plates at home up to my teenage years, because I was the same way. I can tolerate more foods touching now, but there are some things I just don't get. Like when one of the things on the plate is liquidy, like apple sauce, and it eventually ends up touching everything around it - rice, meat, veggies, all end up tinged with apple sauce. I still don't understand how people tolerate that.

I can never forget the terrible line, "bUt iT aLL miXeS iN yOUr sTomAcH." Bruh, I don't taste with my stomach, what kind of argument is that? It's like people completely miss the point of making foods with different flavors.