This superauto delivers café variety at home without the café footprint anxiety, genuinely intuitive controls, and oat milk that froths instead of separates. The cold brew mode sounds like a coup but underwhelms in practice (pull shots over ice instead), and you'll waste a pound of beans dialing in your grind before the espresso hits its stride. The grinder dial jams if you adjust it mid-grind, which is a design flaw you'll learn to work around. For someone who wants fifty drink recipes, easy daily cleaning, and quality espresso once the setup phase is over, this is a strong buy. If you need plug-and-play simplicity or genuinely good cold brew, keep looking.
The rare dual boiler under two grand that doesn't ask you to choose between workflow and counter space, with programmable preinfusion and a genuinely tunable PID that enthusiasts actually use. The stock steam knob is laughably cheap (plan to replace it), the 15-20 minute warm-up tests your patience, and the looks won't win design awards, but once stable it pulls shots and steams milk simultaneously without complaint or compromise. Buy it if you want real temperature control and dual-boiler capability in a compact footprint; walk if you need E61 aesthetics or can't wait a quarter-hour for your first shot.