We're on our second breadmaker - a Panasonic. For years DH has been making bread every other day. It takes 5 minutes for him to put in the ingredients and two hours to cook a small loaf. We've also made olive bread, sundried tomato bread and fruit bread. There are no additives or preservatives, just the ingredients we want and we can control the salt. It can also make jam although we've never tried that, DH prefers to make jam and marmalade on the hob.
We have an excellent bakery nearby but it's so expensive in comparison to homemade. The only bread we buy now is a walnut cob from a well known supermarket beginning with S and baguettes.