Those against equal parenting time of children of divorce as a default rule complain of it as displaying a cookie-cutter mentality.* That’s the objection to equal parenting plans like the 2-2-5-5 or 7-7 or 2-3-2 schedules.
When you look closely at what happens in divorce you will see that in actuality there is no opposition to a cookie-cutter mentality.
The opposition is to the shape of the cookie cutter.
The commonly-used cookie cutter is to give the children to the divorcing/divorced wife and to turn the children’s father into an uncle with every other weekend and maybe a dinner night visitation. The so-called 12-2 schedule.
The every-other-weekend-for-father cookie cutter is apparently perfectly fine for ex-wives. Yummy they might say. (That extra blob of dough in the 12-2 parenting order makes for a tasty extra in the child support payment.)