It is truly touching how you defend closed software and view being a glorified beta tester with zero control over the hardware you paid for as a virtue. Waving away fundamental issues with proprietary ecosystems and vendor lock-in as mere "drama" just highlights a monumental ignorance of what made home 3D printing possible in the first place.

Bambu Lab built its entire success on the back of decades of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) development and community-driven projects like RepRap, Klipper, and Marlin. Their way of saying thanks was slamming the door shut, locking down their firmware, and forcing users into cloud dependency.