I tend to use Nespresso, especially now that the cups are simply available in the shop (and cheap aftermarket options), it's pretty perfect.
I know the manual process is more environmentally friendly but when I wake up in the morning I have no headspace for fussing with coffee grinds. I just need good coffee right away. And I don't even own a car or anything nor have kids so my footprint is pretty low.
Side Note: Personally, making my coffee is a nice process in the morning to kick my brain out of that early fog, it's something I have to engage with, but also something you can learn and get _very_ quick at to the point where you don't need much headspace to do it, not every espresso shot needs to be 1000% perfect.
The ritual of making it in the morning almost wakes me up as much as the coffee does :)
I buy aftermarket cups (10 for 2 euro 50, less than half the price of their own cups!) and the machine is made by Krups. I use those same cups at work because they removed all the coffee machines and put nespressos in place of them. The reason was that the machine coffee was so horrible everyone started bringing their own nespresso machine (they had a really good deal at the time). So now they just provide those in the office. The company I work for is too cheap to pay for coffee for us.
But for me it wouldn't work to do it manually. My house is a huge mess most of the time and messing with grinds etc requires more space.
For more info see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HouzvJGazs4
I don't have any issues with it though. But if my machine breaks I'll buy an aftermarket machine. Good point!
I wonder if the older machines also have this issue by the way.