Reasonably high quality coffee machines are very widespread. Or you can do pour-over. I don’t think the cost of a machine is a limiting factor for many people, it is just convenience.

Maybe an analogy could be made to espresso, nice espresso machines get costlier. But, you can still get quite good results out of a manual machine like a Flair.

I think this is why the suggestion to rent a machine is not to helpful. In this analogy we’re on BaristaNews, we all know about the industrial machines, lots of folks use them at work. But, the topic of what sort of things you can do on your manual machine at home has come up.

> Reasonably high quality coffee machines are very widespread. Or you can do pour-over. I don’t think the cost of a machine is a limiting factor for many people

No, reasonably-priced coffee machines is an enabling factor for many people.

If coffee machines weren't reasonably priced, they would not be "very widespread".

I’m not sure I follow your deeper meaning here, sorry.