When I was a kid, I thought percolator coffee was great, because it was the only 'real' coffee I knew. When we had that cafetiere for the first time at a hotel, the difference was huge, and on the first couple of days I didn't really like it. But then I came to realise that it was actually much nicer. I love Moka pot and I love cafetiere. Relatives still use percolators at Christmas etc. and I quite like it still. It's not awful. It's just very different. It's because the brewed coffee keeps getting recirculated through the grounds over and over at a high temperature.