we tend to drink instant cofe in lazy moments, during rush hours (where we don't have time for grinding + French press), or for work; and we don't wanna associate the good cofe experience with not very enjoyable moments. so we do happen to drink instant cofe often enough that the taste matters; we've tried a bunch and here's what I think of them:

Nescafe Taster's Choice (Québec): it's the best one so far, not as good as fresh cofe but it's decent
Nescafé Spécial Filtre, intensité 6 riche et subtil (France): best one I know of in France, and it's not that good, way worse than Québec's Taster's Choice, but considering it's the best one in France... it's the only one I can "recommend" because the other choices are awful
Nescafé Spécial Filtre décaféiné, intensité 7 riche et subtil (France): same as above but decaf, slightly worse taste
Nescafé NES (France): just tastes like water, I'm not a fan
L'Or (France/Netherlands): really bad, I do not recommend
Maxwell House Qualité Filtre (France/Netherlands): absolutely disgusting, the worst of all of them

I do wanna try the Taster's Choice from Germany eventually to compare, hopefully it's a good instant coffee 🙏