Its one of those things where enthusiasts dominate the conversation because non-enthusiasts don't care enough to provide a different viewpiont, leading to a skewed impression by a lot of folks.
The way I see it in my life amongst regular coffee drinkers:
* Coffee enthusiasts are all about the perfect pour so they select tools based on control and repeatability (and fads like all human things). You get the pourovers and areopresses and what-not from them.
* some folks don't want to waste precious counter space, or hate cleaning the coffee pot, and end up with a kettle and something like a pour over or french press.
Plenty of enthusiasts have regular coffee pots these days. You can get one with good brew temp control, pre-infusion and shower brew head at a run of the mill department store (eg Target in the US.)
Which category do automatic grind/compact/brew/eject coffee machine users fall into?
One incarnation kept a tally of the number of cups consumed, which I always liked (and secretly wished for a serial port so I could get the number out of it programmatically).
The way I see it in my life amongst regular coffee drinkers:
* Coffee enthusiasts are all about the perfect pour so they select tools based on control and repeatability (and fads like all human things). You get the pourovers and areopresses and what-not from them.
* some folks don't want to waste precious counter space, or hate cleaning the coffee pot, and end up with a kettle and something like a pour over or french press.
* everyone else has a coffee pot.