I think it's a generational thing. I used to mow the lawn for an elderly distant cousin, in the hot Florida summer weather. She would invite me in afterward for a snack and a 6.5oz Coca-Cola. I would guzzle mine in a couple of seconds. She would pour half of hers into a glass, over ice, and put the bottle back into the refrigerator.

Wine glasses have also gotten bigger over the years.

Well sugary beverages are a treat, not exactly something you should be encouraging a child to drink a lot of or drink often. That's why that dumb logan paul lunchables ripoff is awful for coming with that large drink.

But not everybody agrees with that kind of statement so here's a better one: Small soft drink cans are really good for single serve cocktails.

A single "cup" of coffee is also 6oz, so it's not exactly an abnormal drink size.

As a glass bottle is strange though. But it tends to feel more "Premium" to people

Soft drink companies cater to literally everyone. They eagerly want to sell to both my friend who drinks several liters a day and my grandma who treats half a can of coke as a nice treat and people like me who used to like soda but now mostly use it for mixing drinks and the occasional treat. That's why they sell multiple different formulas of "Coke without sugar" and why there's so much diversity in just the "Citrus flavored" sub category. I miss Vault and Sierra Mist.

If a gram scale and a grinder that has one knob and one button is too much to deal with then I guess you do need K-cups after all.

300g of water over 17g of freshly ground beans will pretty much always beat the K-cup on quality, is cheaper and produces less waste. You don't even need fancy beans, my go-to is the store brand bean from the supermarket.

It can wear on you a bit if you make lots of coffee but I went years with a Hario skerton hand grinder until my partner got sick of it and got us a reasonably priced election burr

Truly you could be making great coffee at home with <$75 of equipment. Gram scale, eBay secondhand conical hand grinder, department store kettle, pourover funnel, filters.

I usually don’t run high pressure boiling water through my plastic pipes.