I have the Bezzera BB005 grinder. It's a reasonable choice for someone unwilling to spend $3000 on a grinder for home. I actually like to use the bean hopper,

I have the Bezzera BB005 grinder. It's a reasonable choice for someone unwilling to spend $3000 on a grinder for home. I actually like to use the bean hopper, and to use the RDT, you have to keep the hopper empty and fill on each use so you can actually spray the beans that are about to be ground. With the cup, I can load up the hopper for the entire day, then just grind. It's significantly less effort. Particularly when it comes to weighing the shot into the basket, I can just tare out the weight of the cup, and I don't have to mess around trying to balance a basket on a scale. When I watch most of these "youtube experts" push out a cup of espresso it drives me up the wall how much effort they waste. In particular, because to them, it seems like the more effort wasted the "better" the routine is. It needlessly scares amateurs away from learning how to make their own espresso.