I don’t own one but as far as I can tell, I think the question is how interactive do you want to be. Some of these all-in-ones are basically coffee urn-based BIAB with a pump so the brewer is still actively engaged. But some of these things are impressively automated. Tommy set his up, left for lunch at a brewery with his family and came back to a completed brew day. Man, this home brewing is tough. The coffee urn-based systems can distill, too. You know, for brewing water.
BTW: I heard Blue Pants is closing. You guys should hook up, open a Biergarten, hire someone to cook Panierte Hähnchenschnitzel oder Jägerschnitzel und Kartoffel Salat mit Brötchen ....and attach a well stocked retail homebrew supply.
I still miss sitting under that Pecan tree in the backyard of the old place. It’s too hard for SWMBO to get in and out of now so we haven’t been back. The pizza place at the new one is easier so we go there.