I've done a lot of olympic lift training over the years and am competent at it. I am very much pro machine. The modern machines are excellent at preventing injury while providing an ideal strength training movement. The barbell stuff is these days fetishized for no good reason.

People get hurt using barbells all the time. It is easy to mess up and tweak something and then be a bit injured for a few weeks, even if you know what you're doing. It is much harder to mess up with the good machines. The barbell doesn't have any special advantages. In fact, loading up the plates is a nuisance.