If you have decent coffee, you get the grind dialed in, and a half decent sub 300€ expresso machine, you can get very very good coffee.

I have owned a small resto in Spain, so I kind of know a bit about expresso.

The coffee experience is 100% subjective, anyway.

Some like light roasts, dark, some Arabica, some robusta, some espresso, pour over, some percolated (I just barfed a little in my mouth here).

There is a lot of bullshit being peddled by coffee influencers who every week have to make a video about the same subject to keep making money, anyway.