Last summer we were on a walking holiday in Switzerland, and on the wall in the hotel dining room was a print of this picture. It shows that love of coffee has been going on for a long time.
https://www.pictorem.com/97173/An old man making coffee.html dating from the mid/late 1800's
Also in Neville Shute's novel "A town called Alice" two men are talking in a London Gentleman's club just after WWII. One of them is bemoaning the lack of decent coffee at that time, and remembering real ground coffee, which must be ground no more than a few minutes before being brewed.
Going back even further to Samuel Pepys in the mid 1600s mentions coffee houses in London. They were used for all sorts of purposes, often meeting places for politics and business discussions.
So, good coffee appreciation has been going for well over 300 years!