Every time there's an article on HN about 3D printing you have a flock of people who have obviously not looked at a 3D printer in 10 years come and spout absolute nonsense.

As you're saying, modern printers are simply click and forget. I haven't had any maintenance or fix to do on my P1S in 2 years.

Add DJI "revenge investing" in Elegoo and one has the Centauri Carbon which is almost impossibly inexpensive, and which triggered a series of price reductions which landed me a 4-colour 3D printer at an impulse-buy price over the Christmas holiday to add to the Centuari Carbon which churned through a roll of PLA left over from my setting up an Ordbot Quantum roughly a decade ago in less than a week.

Looking into getting an additional 3D printer so that I can have 9+ filaments loaded and not need to swap spools around....