I don’t get the hate, I swear by these. I have one that vacuums and mops.

I think it’s about expectation management.

These by no means replace actual cleaning. Not in the least because they only handle your floor and there’s more shit that needs cleaning. Besides if I put my back into it I clean the whole apartment in a fraction of the time this machine only does the floors.

However, this machine runs when i’m not home, so It could work at it for 8 hours and that would still be fine. Moreso, to do that it only needs a fraction of my time.

The reality is that I have this machine running way more than I myself can be arsed to manually maintain the floors and the net result is that I have cleaner feeling home with almost no time invested. Considering I have about 3 hours of actual me time on an average working day this is a big deal.

Some poeple see them as a symptom of wealth, but honestly this machine is no different to a dishwasher. You could realisticly wash your dishes in half an hour instead of the three hours the machine takes. But that machine only needs to be packed with the dirty dishes and fed a tablet, and occasionally you need to top up the salt and and rinse aid. Whatever time it needs to actually clean your dishes isn’t really an obstacle because you’re using it on something else.