To me it is something like:

You find a video recipe online and go try to make the dish. After it is made you give it to your parser for an opinion.

Parser tells you: This dish you made tastes horrible.
It doesn't tell you what you need to do to make it taste better. It doesn't tell you what you did wrong or what ingredient you forgot to add or added too much.

The value to you is that you have an objective tool telling you that your dish tastes horrible (even though you thought it tastes "ok") so you go back and trace your steps and see what you may have done wrong or how you can make it taste better.

This to me is not hand holding.

Now, if the parser told you your dish tastes horrible, because you added too much salt and you baked it 20 degrees higher than you should have, then I would consider it hand holding and an advantage since it told you exactly what to do to improve your dish.