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(Academic interest only, I don't own a pour-over. I do own a drip machine, but it actually gets about 99% of its use making loose-leaf tea, not brewing coffee.)
I own a Chemex and having the freedom to control all the variables is really quite important. It lets you over time zone in on exactly the perfect brewing method for the perfect cup for you specifically.
Have to ask about your Rancilio. I came very close to buying either that or the Gaggia Classic. Ended up buying neither and went with a Breville. Love the Breville but I went with it purely because it was the cheapest. I think my first choice would really have been the Rancilio.
Let's say that you wake up one morning to find Rancilio vanished. It is just gone. Would you start researching tons of espresso machines or without a second thought get another Rancilio?
The one thing that I preferred about the Gaggia relative to the Rancilio was being able to visually see the water level in the tank, but in every other respect the Rancilio is better. It makes better coffee, has a better steam wand, draws less power, and has a brass boiler instead of aluminum. The reason I bought the Gaggia in the first place was because the founder and president of a company I had worked for brought his old Gaggia into the break room at work when he bought himself a new one, but by the time mine wore out I'd become aware of its limitations. I would definitely go with the Rancilio Silvia V3 over the Gaggia Classic; it's more expensive, yes, but it's enough better to make it a better value for the money.
If I woke up tomorrow and the Rancilio was gone? I think I'd take a lot of convincing not to replace it with another the same, UNLESS I decided to look at one of the fully automatic machines. But I've never been really sure whether I want to go that route or not. There are some utterly gorgeous steampunk works of art out there, and if someone handed me a blank check for the replacement, I might consider one. But on my own budget? It would most likely be another Rancilio.
So, the ability to control the bloom and interact with it. The where you target your pour to break up grounds and release the CO2 within it. The way you maximize the coverage of the extraction. For me the 2nd vs 3rd wave argument comes into play here where if your goal is to maximize some of the tasting notes and flavors from your 3rd wave coffee, you just won't get the same results in drip (even when you use a Technivorm).
Part of the theory also comes from how the grounds are handled. Generally speaking grinders have an easier time with finer grounds which are more common in pourover than in drip. This added consistency contributes a lot of benefit.
I'd heard the thing about pour-overs being all in the pour, but never seen anything to really explain what distinguishes a "good" from a "bad" pour or how either of them is different from what a drip pot does. I wasn't aware that pour-over also uses a finer grind than drip as well. Thanks for the info!