I used to use bread machines. I had four of the same type (other than branding) collected from garage sales and thrift stores, all working, with interchangeable buckets - and without idiotic UI features like the unskippable 20 minute delay before starting, of the GE machines of that vintage.
Actually making bread is really four phases:
1. Assemble and mix the ingredients
2. Knead
3. Rise
4. Bake
Hand baking has an extra step 3a (punch down) and 3b (let rise back up) typically, that the bread machine omits, at least mine did.
But the point was step 1 is required anyway, steps 3 and 4 don't involve any work, so what did the machine do for me, really? Knead. In fact I got into the habit, if the bread had to look good e.g. for guests, of taking the kneaded, not yet risen ball of dough out and letting it rise and bake the normal way, resulting in a normal looking loaf (not in a loaf pan).
Then one of the machines ruined a batch when its shaft seal deteriorated into sticky black gunk that got into the dough. Uh oh. That means my other three machines (two in use, two spares) probably aren't far behind. Seems they don't last forever. So I dumped them and went back to doing things by hand.
Where you can't beat them though, is starting in timer mode, so you have freshly baked bread just ready for breakfast. Aside from that one thing, if you think you need a bread machine to make bread, just try it by hand sometime.