Stick with Silhouette. They're at least owned by a bigger proper conglomerate (Graphtec) that doesn't fuck around with stupid bullshit like Cricut is.

As a plus, small Silhouettes provide a hardware and software upgrade path off of the Silhouette Studio to Graphtec's own design package, and then up to Graphtec's own full-size vinyl cutters.

And they have pen-plotter attachments, too!

Thanks for the tip. I'll take a look.