There's a misunderstanding that 'its impossible for a machine to crochet'

I love how crochet has been a place for people to encourage hand-made goods, but there's also a lot of misunderstanding about automation, and even sometimes some toxic superiority over hand-knitters, or weavers in general.

Firstly, there have been prototypes of machines that can do full crochets, although they do face issues after making particular designs. Here's one for example that they engineered in germany, published to a textile journal: https://cdatp.publia.org/cdatp/article/view/130. It also suggests that it could also create intricate crochets and fully mimic human technique with various changes and expenses, with surprisingly little work.

There's also the fact that there's little demand for crochet goods, and not nearly enough to justify making industrial machinery to create them in large quantities. The customer base would also only want to buy hand-made goods no matter if a machine made good was better ot not, because of the nature of the crochet consumerbase, which only disincentivizes anyone from making crochet machines.

Another fact is that the yarn for crochet comes from machines as well. Aside from the one step of assembly, every step before from growing cotton, dyeing it, spinning it, etc., comes from mechanization. Not to say that crochet is a 'mechanized process', but its not fully accurate to call crochet hand-made either.