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It's not a load of crap, you just didn't want one by ndtnguy

Which is perfectly fine. I am a little puzzled at the emotions people seem to have over this topic.

But the fact that you didn't want or need one doesn't mean that it would not be convenient to have a pot filler. Is not having one the end of the world? No, of course not. But it is indisputably more convenient to fill a pot in place than having to move it, even if the convenience is only marginal. So my assessment that it is handy is, even if not controlling, certainly not "a load of crap."

All you've done is take your assessment of the costs and benefits, measured in light of your own cooking habits, and dressed it up as an objective fact stated with unnecessary acerbity.

I agree that a prep sink taking up space in an island is probably more of a nuisance than anything else.