When brewing coffee, an oft-repeated piece of traditional advice is to never use boiling water. Over the course of your coffee career, you've probably been told that boiling water somehow "burns" the coffee, or extracts a bad burnt flavor.
As an important tool for brewing coffee, the hand coffee maker is like a swordsman's sword, and the pot is like a sword. The coffee pot in hand can appropriately reduce the difficulty of controlling water when we brew.