Gitlab and gitlab-ci really are great and easy to support with little problems as long as you update regularly. It really does look cringe, but they always were chasing current dumb thing relentlesly.
Other cheap chinese printers are often great, both value and quality. It's creality problem, I've had ender 3 before and it was a nighmare to make work but after that it printed alright as long as you didn't change anything. Here it will print okay one day and won't be able to finish first layer next day with same gcode
One of the first problems. Z-axis connectors were loose (as in they would partially fall out of their socket during normal working) so it was fixed with glue.
There are messages with generic recommendations and post upgrade/post install scripts. They are rarely used because it goes against arch's principles to run some (maybe fragile) script on your system. Reading news once a week/month before upgrade isn't that inconvenient.
model needs to be designed for print from the start
yes, properly designed 'ready to print' models can be great, yet there is still a lot of variance in printers's capabilities that will require at least some time to configure in slicer
Gitlab and gitlab-ci really are great and easy to support with little problems as long as you update regularly. It really does look cringe, but they always were chasing current dumb thing relentlesly.