Speaking as one who has taught US history in college, I will tell you that if you ask your students to write out the Preamble to the Constitution, you can tell who “learned” it that way; they changed it to fit the meter of the song.
My eldest son uses one every day. Despite his much wiser father telling repeatedly that boiling coffee is almost as bad for the taste as microwaving it.
Drip is the only way to go! Before we got our first electric drip machine, I used an old 2-pot boil-the-water-in-a-pan-and-pour-it-in drip device; kept using it for camping until my health precluded that.
Do you really have no idea what we rational people put up with on a constant basis from the superstitious?