maybe this might lend insight to what I am saying.
My first printer (Tiko) never works well, needed modifications out of he box to make a poor print. It eventually printed but was never good.
The second printer was a mono price it worked out of the box but rapidly parts started to fail and lots of mods to correct poor manufacturing choices were needed to keep it running. (who doesn’t put strain fitting on a moving bed? good grief)
The third printer was a Prusa Mk3 I spend a few evenings following the instructions and assembled it. It was a fantastic experience and worth the cost of the printer, very very enjoyable. The mods I added over the years made it worse, so it is bone stock and still makes unbelievable quality prints. I have upgraded from the MK3 to a MK3s to a MK3s+. and considered an MK4 upgrade and maybe a Core upgrade even. It is the most versatile and Prusa support is the best and has a long history of upgrades to newer models.
I then bought a sidewinder X1. It never printed out of the box and an huge amount of hours and frustration and pathetic after sales support it prints and makes poor quality prints. By far it has the most time and money in it. It has basically be re built completely.
I then bought a FLsun v400 it runs open source klipper. There was no real profiles and nothing really from the manufacturer. I spend a lot of time tuning it calibrating it and testing before it made prints reliably and consistently. it makes ok prints FAST really fast lately it killed its moonraker and the control board looks fried. Its in the corner.
I bought a Prusa XL tool changer, it has been a good experience and makes good prints with a persistent ringing issue. The tool changing works well, although I use it only for putting soft grips on things. It is reliable but not the quality of the Mk3 is.
I got a Bambu P1S out of the box it made prints almost as good as the MK3s+ makes. No tuning no issue no effort it just works. The first print was close to perfect and almost flawless .Until there was a power surge recently with a communication issue started. I have been inside it for the fist time recently. The AMS multi material is a different story an massive mod later It finally works well. Python mod, take it apart toss the housing redesigned all the physical parts…
I bought a Bambu P2S last week as the P1S is still down, and I have come to rely on it. the first print off the P2S is, as hard as it is to say, better than prints off my MK3s+. It is fast reliable so far and stock everything, cardboard cores and all, no issues yet that so far includes the AMS2 but I suspect it will meet the big snake sooner than later (Python mod AMS and AMS2pro suffer from the same it needs friction to work, what are they thinking…)
there is a U1 in the future too. Klipper again.
A tail of open and closed.