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The bottom ones have delectable white meat inside. The top ones are all brown guts and crispy, musty shell. Nobody is shelling crickets for a worthwhile piece of meat inside like you do a shrimp or a lobster.
They look similar to bugs, sure. But let's not pretend it's the same thing.
Sounds to me that the common preparation is to just blend them into a powder at which point they're just a non descript protein rich powder
Still no tasty meat.
Well yeah, this would be a poor substitute for meat, but I haven't really seen it suggested as such, just as another way to introduce protein.
We're pretty close to creating real synthetic milk by means of modified bacterial culture.
If we can have real milk, cheese, whey protein etc. from cheap feedstock in fermentation vats, I don't see a single reason why someone would choose bug powder over that as a protein source.
In asia the bugs are often put with other condiments, lollipop, spices etc... to make them taste something.
And they are mostly like snacks. I don't know any culture that have them take the place of a meat in a dish.
I mean, at that point just use soy beans.