I find this rather interesting because the flipside is there are many of us that can no longer do hand embroidery or hand quilting due to physical issues so machine embroidery still allows us to create rather it be embroidery for quilt blocks or quilting the sandwich. We are all entitled to our likes/dislikes but I would not disregard someone's work because it was done on a machine; there may come a time that you too will have to depend on a machine to create. No disrespect is meant in this response but to encourage one to think before judging another's work.