A criticism I've heard is that percolated coffee tastes bad compared to coffee brewed with modern techniques, like drip coffee, French press, etc. I wonder if t

A criticism I've heard is that percolated coffee tastes bad compared to coffee brewed with modern techniques, like drip coffee, French press, etc. I wonder if that's not something the older generation raised on it -- including my parents -- is conscious of, because there didn't used to be any other options. What I do know is that everyone from the percolator generation seems to have transitioned away from them despite the fact that those machines are indestructible. So I'm personally inclined to believe that, while they didn't necessarily think that percolators made bad coffee, they tried filter coffee (or whatever) once and then switched away from percolators and never looked back.