Please explain this sorcery.  

Is the idea to enjoy a tonic but add a boost of wakefulness?   

Or is it to ruin a beautifully pulled shot of God’s nectar? 

 It is to have a nice refreshing energy boost.

I don’t beautifully pull espressos, I aeropress them so this is usually an upgrade. 

 Ok - that makes sense.   It’s a lot of work to aeropress and while I’ve  gotten great coffee out of one, I’ve never had  a good shot of espresso from one - to the point where I consider it false advertising - but then I realize that it’s a frisbee company that makes it. 

So I can see how it makes sense to dress it up in a way to make it enjoyable. 

 Fellow (the kettle company) makes an espresso cap for the aeropress that significantly improves the quality of an espresso shot but it’s still not on par with a quality shot pulled from a nice machine. 

 Loyal Stagg man right here