Why Even My Mom Makes Angel Food From a Box

Apparently there is a reason why Angel Food Cake from the box is universally accepted where a boxed Funfetti cake is considered the "lazy" way. I should have run away when Ina warns not to bake the cake on a rainy day because it will be "dense and sticky" and not "light and airy," because God forbid my Angel Food Cake is dense!
I do not know what was more exhausting - reading the recipe five hundred times and still not understanding what happens to the reserved one and a half cups of sugar that is mysteriously separate from the CAKE flour and other half a cup of sugar (Yah, try finding cake flour at the grocery store with the Spanish speaking, yet enthusiastic employee who has no idea what cake flour even means), my mother coming home and informing me that I should be using confection sugar and not the refined sugar that I blended in the food processor, or sifting the flour and sugar FOUR TIMES, only to sift it each time you add a fourth of the flour mixture to the gallon of egg whites that have whisked for a minute on high, then two minutes on medium, then sung a lullaby, then mixed on super-duper high speed until it purrs in satisfaction.
Anyway, by the time I had appropriately danced, sung and prayed to my cake and placed it in the oven I had forgotten how to tie my shoes, and in fact, I think I lost them in the process. I busied myself and pretended to forget about the moody cake determining if it was rainy outside and if it felt like rising in the 35 minutes. I about fell over when I opened the oven door to a confection that resembled Ina's Chocolate Angel Food Cake and even better, it was surprisingly delicious, if I may say so myself!
I must say, Ina, you flawlessly guided me through what should have been a culinary disaster! I do not know how it happened, but I successfully baked the dreaded Angel Food Cake from scratch, and a chocolate one, no less! I do not know if I would encourage a friend to put away the boxed cake for the cake flour, at least not until they have had enough baking successes to buoy their confidence, however it feels pretty good to be able to say, "Yes, I have indeed made an Angel Food Cake from scratch and it was even humid outside!"
I don't need you, boxed Angel Food Cake!