Crazy as it sounds, that’s the opposite of my personal experience.

Yeah in the four years I’ve had my Prusa it’s had basically no problems.

They’re a pain in the ass if you buy bottom of the barrel crap with sloppy tolerances for $100 I guess, but the same is true of regular printers.

	▲	giantg2 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had a cheap Ender 3 Pro for years. It had occasional issues, but they were fairly easy to solve due to the large user base. It was great to learn on since you had to learn the concepts and do some stuff like leveling manually. So even the cheap stuff can work fine.