For me, even the dual boiler is not worth it. A machine with a working PID (that has the offset documented and you can set it, not via vague presets) and you are set and properly equipped. Everything above are nice to have but unnecessary.
You need some loops to jump through to get there. But that can be achieved for Signal as well, if you check the discussions regarding reproducible builds for Signal’s iOS client, you’ll see that people just decided it is not worth the hassle to push it through.
Here is an article about the issue: Boilergate
You can check yours by running some water via the steam wand, if you find any small black grinds in the cup, that is the coating peeling.
Did you check if it has the flaking issue? I bought one a week ago and it already has flakes through the steam wand. Seems like Gaggia is ignorant of the issue.
I wouldn’t trust the 12 years old me to decide a name for myself.
Just found the post from someone having the same issue a week ago. It’s odd there is nowhere specified this list of blacklisted hosting services.
Most of these companies have no real values. Revenue and money is their only value, if you can make the biggest profits by trading with terrorists, this will become their business plan.
In the European market, it is priced similarly to a Lelit Bianca, which is the end game budget. The Silvia Pro X is about 400€ and the Elizabeth can be found for 900€ less, both new.
To me it seems that the pricing is just not right. And understand that I am not the target audience for this kind of machine.