There's baiting and then there's baiting with/using feeders.
Baiting, is randomly and routinely placing food temporarily in a specific location. As in your experience with the baboons, FYI, baboons are considered: vernnon, nuisance, etc. type animals. To bring them out into the open sometimes it is necessary to bait them.
Baiting by feeder: animals are "institutionalized" into coming to the feeder by the sound and/or their since of timing as to when to expect a continuous supply of supplemental food in that area.
I can only speak about my experiences with one outfitter. He has to blind setups: 1. for hunters and a 2nd for on hunters/ photo safaris. No Hunting around or near feed bunks. Hunting over bait is done only around skinning shed waste dump areas and spontaneous areas; areas that PHs think an animal will eventually appear. The latter once the bait is gone no more bait is placed out.
Another outfitter I was with for the first time in 2025 used salt blocks in conjuction with naturally occurring temporary pans. We checked these areas, but never hunted at, near, nor around them. It seemed as a way to check to see, by tracks, what animals were in these particular various areas.
JMO, check with your outfitter on their use of baiting, and hunting over baited areas when vetting outfitters.
