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My attempt at an actual answer is that they just generally cannot consolidate details, elements, into a broadly coherent, consistent, larger concept.
They're all bottom up (deductive), but no top down (inferential) thinking, its why they are so often astounding hypocrites, why they are generally dysfunctional at anything other than very specific niches of well-defined tasks, why they are so obsessed with minutiae.
They can't consolidate, harmonize, synergize, prioritize.
And the ability to do those things is essential to the construction of a definable, coherent style.
To them, the sum is simply equal to the sum of its parts, the idea that that sum could actually be more or less, due to complimentary or detrimental relations between ingredients to a recipe... that idea is almost nonsensical to them.