A radar gun can help detect speed.
An altimeter can tell you high you are.
A compass can tell you which difection you’re facing.
Computers have helped allow you to do tasks based on these data faster.
However, you can only use data that you have. You [generally] can’t operate on smell or taste data.
That doesn’t mean smell and taste are less valuable; just that they’re harder to acquire and/or digitize.
Correspondingly, computers have significantly limited data related to smells and taste, and they have less intricate discussions related to them in text.
Someone can opine on a smell, but they would struggle to capture or reproduce the scent. And so the assessment of the smell is prone to interpretation rather than an accurate reproduction much more than sights and sounds, which can be captured and played back far more literally.