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They do, but...
If we are talking about Italian espresso and Moka being an incredibly ingenious and cheap approximation of the coffee bar espresso, you need to look at how Italians buy their coffee. They don't buy whole grain, because the coffee shops ground the coffee fresh for them at the time of purchase. The coffee shop typically also carries they're own blends roasted in their own premises that are not only available in that one specific shop, but virtually unknown anywhere else. So people not only buy there coffee fresh (usually in no more than 200g packs) in specialized shops, but in very specific shops. And when they do the sales person will ask them how they want it to be ground, for which type of preparation. Espresso machine, Moka, Turkish coffee (OK that one is probably only available in Trieste, but still) and they will setup these enormous and very precise grounding machine accordingly. The grounding of coffee influences the taste and as I'm sure you know can easily destroy the coffee if done wrong. So the Italian smartly leave it to the pros (or at least to pro machines).
If you love coffee, those places are almost magical.
Now to duplicate what I've described in an industrial, mass produced way is of course impossible, but Illy has spent more money and time to come as close to it as possible. They are using very expensive production and packaging technology (along with 100% arabica coffee from Africa) to bring you a very close approximation of the Italian coffee shop quality, because we don't all live next to one.
So if you are fairly confident you'll use it up in a month or so, pick up a box of ground Illy coffee for Moka and (hopefully) be surprised at the result.
And no I'm not on Illy's payroll, although if somebody from Illy is reading this I wouldn't say no to a couple of boxes of coffee. Just sayin'...
