I love the taste of coffee, and people think it’s crazy but if the coffee tastes good hot, I also typically like the taste of it after it’s cooled to room temp. My coffee snobbery begins and ends at “use good beans which were freshly ground”. If you’ve done that you can make a brewing mistake and mess it up (I’ll still drink it) otherwise it will taste good. Some beans are better than others obviously, but I’m not too picky.
I feel like you might like James Hoffman, a coffee YouTube creator. His baseline attitude is much the same as yours - if you start with good tasting water and good, freshly roasted beans, you’ll likely end up with good tasting coffee. He also delves into the nitty gritty, doing a lot of cool experimentation with different techniques and data-driven stuff, but he usually does a good job of stressing that all those minute details end up making very small differences in the resulting cup.
I love the taste of coffee, and people think it’s crazy but if the coffee tastes good hot, I also typically like the taste of it after it’s cooled to room temp. My coffee snobbery begins and ends at “use good beans which were freshly ground”. If you’ve done that you can make a brewing mistake and mess it up (I’ll still drink it) otherwise it will taste good. Some beans are better than others obviously, but I’m not too picky.
I feel like you might like James Hoffman, a coffee YouTube creator. His baseline attitude is much the same as yours - if you start with good tasting water and good, freshly roasted beans, you’ll likely end up with good tasting coffee. He also delves into the nitty gritty, doing a lot of cool experimentation with different techniques and data-driven stuff, but he usually does a good job of stressing that all those minute details end up making very small differences in the resulting cup.