The ceramic coating is a big plus, especially dealing with an acidic liquid and cleanup as coffee can stain things easily. It keeps the liquid hot for hours! This opens up many opportunities to steep at a lower temperature than boiling reducing the “burnt” taste, reducing some bitterness, allowing refinement to the coffee produced, similar to what the process of cold brewing offers-different grind sizes, longer extraction times allowing very smooth coffees. This opens a world of opportunities for the knowledgeable coffee connoisseur to adapt their brewing to the batch of coffee beans. And the bigger size means 1 brew cycle for a small group with a great brew process, not multiple brews plus allowing small brews with one French press device. The filters work great, the pour spout works great-don’t understand some complaints about the spout as every French press has some form of pour adapting. Plusses much greater than a minus.