bread machine tips

I made bread today.
My Dad gave me my first bread machine. It was a wonder! I had been making homemade bread for 20 years at that point, and either mixing it completely by hand or using a hand crank doo-funny with a hook all that time. The bread machine did all the work, and it made pretty good bread too. I wore that machine out in about 5 years, and the new one I got did not make good bread. It took me a while to come to the conclusion that I should just use it to mix the dough and then take it out, put it in pans, let it rise, and bake it in my oven. Perfect bread, almost every time.
It never occurred to me that I might have some insight into bread making, especially with a bread machine, until my daughter asked me why her bread was not coming out well. She had recently bought at bread machine, and her bread was not that great.
I said, "I will make some, and show you what is important."
It turned out that her dry/moist ratio was a bit off, and the ball of dough was sitting on the hook in the middle of the pan, just going round and round for the whole kneading cycle. I showed her what should be happening, and told her she would need to either add a little liquid or a little flour--liquid for what she had happening, and flour if the dough was too wet.
The dough should go back and forth and around and around and up and down. In other words, the hook should KNEAD the dough.
The moisture in flour varies, and even if you follow the recipe EXACTLY, the dough may not be right.
I just finished looking up "bread machine tips" on the internet, and could find nothing about this. Everyone seems to just assume that one will know what kneading should look like. This must be why I see so many bread machines in the thrift stores.
Chuck says I should make a u-tube video of the way it should look when the bread machine is doing the right thing. we shall see.
I still just let my machine do the kneading--I am not sure what happens when it bakes--maybe the timing is off.