LOL that's because "extraction" dates to the dawn of modern chemistry, where it was used as a "sciency" version of distillation. Your natural instinct is to prefer the thing that's less synthetic and beat-up. Essences are generally made through boiling; extracts are generally made through chemical cracking. Your knee-jerk reaction is to embrace the very linguistic preferences the Golden Age of Science rebelled against. The purification step of extraction is exactly what was hailed in the creation of the miracle polymers of the 1900s, and exactly why a vanilla bean soaked in Southern Comfort yields better vanilla "extract" than sulfiting sawdust. Don't get me wrong, huffing something until it gives you bronchitis is fucking stupid. But so is automatically hating something because the hippies like it, which is all "skepticism" is.