up front: everyone should do what works best for them. no judgement.
with that out of the way, yes, machines make coffee, and they're easy. the biggest thing that keeps me from using one is the tubing-- if you don't religiously run cleaning cycles (which is more $ for the cleaner chemicals), then you end up with internal tubing full of bacterial colonies, which, no thanks. that's to say nothing of the reservoir. when did you last clean the reservoir of your coffee machine?
pourover = rinse out, air dry or towel dry, no moisture for shit to grow in
also, you talk about "grinding fresh for each pot" which i totally agree, but then you say "schedule the brew time" which means letting the "fresh ground" coffee sit in a coffee machine basket overnight, open to the world, which, as you know from working in coffee, negates the "fresh ground" bit. the coffee is fine, i pre-grind my own coffee. but i definitely taste a difference in coffee i grind immediately before brewing, and that which i grind the night before
sounds like a load of hype ass bullshit to me
but not in a bad way