I never quite understood the hype of Instant pot. It just seemed like an Electric pressure cooker. Breville has had one since the mid 00s, and my mother had a simpler Sears branded one in the 90s.
Was it bandwagon effect? It always seemed like one of those products you'd see on an infomercial. The overall build quality, particularly the front button membrane, looked extremely cheap to me, like what you'd see on random Wish.com crap.
The key thing for me was the stainless pot. Every other electric pressure cooker has a Teflon-coated pot that will get scratched, flake, discolour, go sticky and generally poison you after a couple of years. I guarded my old Moulinex pot like a mother bear her cubs and it still went weird. A Tefal rice cooker pan is still perfect, though, so I can do it, it's just pressure cooking seems too much hard work for Teflon to withstand.
Was it bandwagon effect? It always seemed like one of those products you'd see on an infomercial. The overall build quality, particularly the front button membrane, looked extremely cheap to me, like what you'd see on random Wish.com crap.