re: I have to ask, why do people love rice cookers?

Because I can reheat boudin in the rice cooker.

No clue, steaming microplastics daily to eat doesn't seem healthy long term. I am talking about those plastic ones you see at the asian stores.

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It is just something you have to time and tend to, with a rice cooker you can just let it go and not worry about it.

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I don't know how the rest of you are cooking rice on the stove, but I've never "tended" to cooking rice on the stove. I quit using cheap rice cookers 15 or so years ago.

The "tending" to is waiting for the water to boil. For a small batch for the 4 of us, that takes like 2 minutes to get it to a boil. Turn the knob to lowest setting and i don't touch it again until we're ready to eat it.
Regardless if you use a rice cooker or the stove, you're measuring rice and water. you pressed a button on the rice cooker after that and was done with it. I turned a knob and was done with it. Does the rice cooker require less work, sure, but pretending like cooking on the stove requires all this attention is just silly. I'm not knocking using a rice cooker. My point in not having one is more that i don't want to store it b/c i'm limited on my space for large items like that.

Because some people are too stupid to even boil water much less make rice.

Exact one I have. The little steam tray that comes with it will hold the perfect amount of broccoli florets for two. We just started utilizing that function

An appliance is a waste if it's used once or twice a year. We cook rice almost twice a week. I'm using a rice cooker. You hit an button and walk away.

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This thing will show half of you how bad you are at cooking rice.

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Price: $645

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Clean-up with a rice cooker is quite easy compared to a regular pot.

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That's probably the biggest reason why i stopped using a rice cooker. Cleaning it was a pain in the arse. Always had rice stuck to the bottom that i'd have to soak and scrape off. Maybe i just had a cheap shitty rice cooker. It was always bubbling over and getting the lid dirty, and then the rice would stick to the bottom. I hated that rice cooker.
Don't have that issue with my non-stick pots, and i've been using the same non-stick pots for the last 17 years.

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Additionally, there are times that you need a lot of rice, and a rice cooker just doesn't have that kind of capacity.

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My rice cooker can cook 5 cups of dry rice at a time. I personally haven't had to use more than that. But if I did, I'd just empty the first batch into a serving bowl and make another batch. It takes 30 seconds to get a batch ready to go.