I'd say not all coffee machines (despite being perfectly happy with a Cafetiere mug of cheap instant shit) are pointless.
Except for the one an exBF bought me one Christmas.
Filter. Milk Frother and warming plate. Espresso. All in one 'handy' machine.
The bastard thing is, without exaggerating, four foot long, weighs about 25 kilos, doesn't get up to a high enough pressure to actually make espresso that tastes of anything and takes hours to clean out. I only drink one weak black coffee every 2-3 days at most and, at the time, the biggest of the two surfaces I had in the kitchen of my flat was two foot six long, so, to use it would have meant dangling it over the sink and stringing an extension lead across the kitchen (and cooker, just for the added frisson of potential electrocution).
It's somewhere in the loft where it's been since the day I moved in because the cunting thing is too big to hide in a bin bag and shove in the wheelie bin.
The most irritating thing is that I didn't even want a coffee machine - it was the exBF's sister who wanted one from her DP. So, not only was I landed with something I neither wanted or needed, I had to deal with his sister copping a massive strop because she didn't get what she wanted for Xmas and I did - tempting though it was to give it to her for a quiet life, she wouldn't have accepted it because it was too big to fit on her kitchen countertop either.
I would Freecycle it, but I have the nagging suspicion that if it were to come out of the loft, DP would decide he wanted to keep the bastard thing.