I'm pretty surprised they still sell that one. It was one of the first (or even the first?) multihead printers and therefore of course very expensive, but by now… their Core+ is very much the reasonable one.
You might want to try those total conversion projects. There are a few that take parts from one or two Ender 3 and turn the machine into a modern CoreXY machine.
If Bambu just removed the part someone with a soldering iron should be able to do so as well. Although selling a printer as "broken" means getting 50€ at most…
This. For some reason there are people out there are still hell-bend on telling everyone Prusa would be "behind the curve" or "overpriced". Ignore that nonsense. They're pricey, but they're also quality and even more relevant right now the printer will be truly yours. Their services like Printables just work, meanwhile the first thing Makerworld slaps into your face is either begging to make an account or forcing you to just to download something.
Not the person you asked, but in my experience good (!) ASA is way better manageable. It still shrinks and can be annoying, but way less than ABS.
As with ABS especially a good print bed and heated chamber is doing wonders.
On a glass plate + 3DLac + Brim it goes absolutely nowhere. Quite the opposite, I have to further cool down the plate and use a scraper to get it off. There might be better plates available, I just went with the oldschool structured glass because I wanted things to fucking work during print.
You said Captain Marvel, I thought Wonder Woman. Same thing though. 😅
I do understand why many people react like that to criticism of something empowering though. If you've been oppressed, bullied and hurt for something forever you of course see it everywhere (because that's where the source of pain usually is/was, fucking everywhere). I'm dealing with that shit myself, it takes serious energy not to immediately jump at people when they express anything that could be transphobic. After an awful day I might only realise later how I overinterpreted a situation.
Now of course there is a small but loud minority of performative "supporters" who completely misinterpret most criticism, verbally attack people on sight and are genuinely annoying for no good reason. That's an absolute minority though, hard to distinguish from (bad-faith) trolls and just a menace to everyone. Unfortunately you generally can't distinguish those on social media…
You're wrong. Low income households were absolutely made dependent on it, solely because of prices.
Some examples:
Certain food is way cheaper, especially spices. In the shop I get 30-50g of it for 3-8€. On Amazon I get 250g for about 10€. Doing without means worse food.
A lot of tech is cheaper. Especially daily items such as cables, powerbanks, earphones etc., other shops usually are more expensive - often even for the exact same items.
Clothes are cheaper. The very same shoes from a known brand (Hummel) were just 33€ there, but 50€ anywhere else.
Some items you won't even find anywhere else except shady shops or Ebay sellers, and especially poor people can't afford to be screwed over. To know Amazon will just give you your money back is an unavoidable perk.
Now add more disgusting tactics to that:
Amazon has certain ways to firmly insert themselves into e.g. poor people's lives. In Germany you get free Prime (and therefore free shipping) if you're on welfare. Combine that with the above, especially items like food or clothes. You have to save every penny, you do not have the financial freedom to just say no to that. Especially parents don't.
Local shops simply vanished due to online shopping, subsidized mega markets such as Amazon did the rest. For lots of stuff you'd have to travel long distances. Let it be because of no affordable public transport, slow ones or your old junker of a car falling apart, this isn't an option either.
And it isn't even just poor people. With the economical situation as it is more and more people don't have the luxury not to use the cheapest, most easy option (you have to manage stress as well after all, and Amazon is easy). Even just spices and kitchen supplies probably saves dozens of € per month for a family, unless they really like bland food. Money available for healthy ingredients instead - or the washing machine that just broke.
Please be aware how privileged you are being able to say what you said.
As well as Apple products. and Microsoft Windows devices. The whole tech industry gets shittier and people merely adjust their expectations.
People are not buying rationally either, especially not when they're literally bombarded with manipulation attempts (ads, product placements, influencer marketing etc.). Something BambuLab does relentlessly.
So do machines like Snapmaker (U1) and especially Prusa, but without the amount of involuntary butt stuff.
And it's not even true, the amount of issues with Bambu are piling up. A1 even manage to melt themselves recently, print failures with the print head becoming a plastic blob, the whole shebang. It's the same with Apple indeed, as in people being ignorant in regards to all their issues because of the whole lifestyle feeling the marketing team managed to create.
Security is the first thing that comes to mind. Compartmentalization prevents or at least makes it considerably harder for compromised services to screw up all the others.
Another thing would be that it might be easier to manage backups and snapshots.
It's ironic though since this is indeed a self-reinforcing cycle as well. The easier it is to get guns for the public the more the police is being armed, and at the end of the day it's the state who'd win this arms race.
The kind of "moral collapse" (not sure if the term is correct) necessary to overthrow an oppressive government can't be gained with bullets, those merely reinforce whatever state your society currently is in or moves towards. I totally understand that you feel e.g. enabled, stronger, more independent etc. when holding a firearm, especially backed by US gun culture. Unfortunately the main thing firearms and the idea of them being a solution to something creates is pointless violence, which the US suffers greatly from for… well, forever.
I'm pretty surprised they still sell that one. It was one of the first (or even the first?) multihead printers and therefore of course very expensive, but by now… their Core+ is very much the reasonable one.