My first slow cooker gets used a lot - but my life is sometimes still complicated at the end of the day - either through needing to fix 'sides' (eg rice or veg) - and also due to DD being vegetarian.
I do cook rice in the slow cooker - but have had a couple of dodgy batches - does a purpose built rice cooker do a good job?
Or maybe a 'multicooker' type of thing...?