Not to start a coffee rebellion,
I've sipped many a cuppa tea, but coffees are complex and varied as is tea.
Like tea, local soils, altitude, and climate differences produce different traits and flavors as well as local processing methods. Ritual? Granted, Tea has a mystique originating in the orient where traditions and correctness were the norm. The Empire has improved taste and added to the ritual with milk and sugar. But, Although you consider it cumbersome to do it right, and there are many beautiful teapots and storage like ArchieG's Dragon Container, none of the hardware in the process is anywhere as grand as the old commercial espresso machines that were works of art as well as function.