Technically it’s even more emotional when crafted, the combined essence of so many dead ghasts now formed into one being that gets to live happy, away from the suffering, only if you chose to let it be happy.
While burning spice is just destruction, shadow milk is manipulation and most likely can counteract the happiness that she has in her paradise, breaking it in a way she can't fix so easily.
I’m all for what Caine did. He knows his limits and doesn’t want to take any chances, though I kinda wish he just teleported gummigoo away instead of just insta death.
Titles, while I assume that mystic flour was much closer to cookiekind compared to the other virtues. Spice formed kingdoms, salt did knightly things, sugar was a roaming angel and fount was a teacher of many.