I don't disagree with Bambu from an operational standpoint, but disagree with their handling of this.

They are offering a cloud infrastructure that allows users to remote control the printer via their software. If they don't want users to use a non-approved software to access their cloud, they should just build auth around it and explicitly tell people that. The accessibility for users to utilize the printer without going through official software and cloud is a whole other can of worms of course.

This whole fiasco could have been avoided by not being so confrontational, giving their user base ideological ammo.

They had that chance to create proper auth and api for years and many developers and myself have been asking for it. Never happened, and I suspect will never happen.