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Oat milk isn’t milk. People don’t want to drink liquidised, filtered and treated oats with added water. They want milk. If you just want something that has some vague similarity to milk that’s cool. If other people want milk then suggesting that something that doesn’t taste like milk, barely looks like milk and has completely different mouthfeel, behavior when cooked and macronutrient profile isn’t very helpful.

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The obvious alternative is not oat milk but pasturized milk.

Oat milk is great as milk, especially if you’re having porridge. The enriched oat milk I get has vitamins but not calcium.

My dad can tell the difference between oat and lactose free dairy milks in tea, so he has both in a day.