Al, you just know that Keurig is gonna be the recipient of a lot of hate from coffee snobs. It's just the nature of the product. Personally, I love it. I was an early adopter and have owned many of them. They have evolved and now pretty much have an answer for everything (except the uber snob who requires that coffee making be a long involved process).
I especially like the fact that everyone can have what he or she likes without the need of brewing an entire pot of that flavored gunk that my wife likes. Plus, there's tea, hot chocolate, etc. You just have to remember to regularly desalinate the thing, which the new ones remind you to do.
Snobbery really interests me, and I admit I've been guilty of it. I once worked at a motorcycle dealership that had a $10K Italian coffeemaker that was always requiring some guy from the factory to come in and adjust it. On the one hand, I can admire and applaud anyone who seeks excellence. On the other hand, so often this seems to suck the pleasure out of an activity. I think of oenophiles or audiophiles who fret and spend fortunes in pursuit of...what? For one thing, it's been my experience that if you critically compare something to anything else, you may never be happy with what you have. Or, to put it another way, the "ultimate" anything can be gotten used to, and then it's just the soup du jour, so to speak. Don't get me wrong. I'm not criticizing snobs, so long as their efforts bring them genuine pleasure. I just believe that in many cases the pursuit of the ultimate instead often leaves people unsatisfied.
Years ago I ran into a rock star at a bar. I was a big fan of his, and there he was just drinking a beer at the bar. I told him that I'd seen him drinking beer on a number of occasions and he always drank Bud. I asked him why that was. He said that when he was a young man he would only drink a difficult to obtain micro-brew. Because he was constantly traveling he was always disappointed, so he learned to like Bud because he could get it anywhere. This struck me as eminently sensible.