Fully agreeing with your points here. The perspective I think that hasn't been mentioned is present here in Switzerland - where they make 'Jura' brand superautomatic coffee machines, and culture is such that in any establishment that is not specialty-coffee focused, you will be served your coffee by a robot. You will still pay top dollar for the middle-aged woman to walk over and press the button for Cafe or Cappuccino, but it will probably taste like burnt rubbish.

To me in particular, any hope of a quality standard of the milk aspect of the coffee is lost completely.

But returning to your points - The 'Jura' standard of coffee is 'good enough', and only not good enough recently to hip-swiss or expats living here. The standard of coffee expected from a barista is significantly higher - I imagine the theoretical Jura coffee machine that can do this would cost an insane amount to build, and to maintain and calibrate.

That is, until we get a real AI powered robot that can optimize and adjust its technique to what is happening in the cup and in the milk jug.