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Spent Christmas at my sister in law's, they have a Sage Oracle which is an incredible coffee machine and they buy excellent 3rd wave coffee. Infuriatingly they set the grinder to "30" which is less than halfway between coarse and fine, which is obviously far too coarse for espresso, and they've done zero setup on all of the editable, customisable settings. So a pre-programmed double shot pulls about half a cup of sour under-extracted coffee.
They're quite fussy about their incredibly expensive machine so I spent the Christmas period surreptitiously grinding much finer, then flicking the grinder back up to 30. Then trying to work out how to edit the double espresso setting to get the right weight out.
My main takeaway from this experience was £1,700 buys you a machine that's incredibly repeatable and conducive to experimentation thanks to everything being computer controlled.