1. Kneading is good exercise, and therapeutic (imagine your boss's face as you are puching down the dough
) - you can get your kid to help you, my daughter enjoys it
2. One loaf tin and one bowl to wash up is easier than pissing about with cleaning a bread maker IMO
3. Hand baking uses less power
4. The consistency of the breadmaker is its downfall IMO. There's no creativity, all you get are variatins on a theme. Breadmakers are a bit of a one-trick pony - with hand baking you can experiment with different shapes of loaf, make rolls instead etc. Can you make rosemary and olive foccacia in a breadmaker?
5. Time? The actual time spent actually mixing dough or kneading when baking by hand is about ten minutes, if that.