Loonster you may have a point regarding the augur.
Is it just the Niches that have the little safety switch which prevents the grinder operating unless the lid is down?
Trying to think of other grinders that have something similar.
The Olympia Moca SD has the trapdoor which achieves the same thing.
But I think that with most other grinders, you can turn them on and then stick your fingers in but you’d probably need small fingers to get to the burrs. By comparision, that augur has quite a large open cavity above it.