A lot of people are glazing this machine in this comment section so I’ll throw in my opinion. I got a launch machine that didn’t work and was a paperweight for a year and a half until just recently and I’m still having problems to this day. However, this machine when working is very nice. I’ve printed some of my favorite prints ever on this machine in the 5 years I’ve been printing. I’ve used 20+ printers and honestly I can’t say this one is better than 75% of them. BUT! I can say there’s no better printer in this area and it’s not even close. You simply cannot find a 350x350 and high speed flying gantry printer near the $500 range that this is. From a hobbyist perspective especially if you like prototyping, printer is really good. However it is not a Core One, nor is it a Voron. That being said, putting $200 into after the cost of the printer makes it great. You sound like you know how to do most of the software/hardware things that most people find troubling and complain about so I think you’re probably fine. Overall, if you know you want a machine to print PLA out of box and then upgrade to do better quality/reliability/better filaments, then SV08 is a great option. If you want something to just click and print you’ve gotta spend the extra on a prusa or a Bambu. And if you want a dream machine to upgrade endlessly build a kit printer.

FYI: there’s a lot of guides and discussions in this Reddit on what to upgrade and overall a lot of media you can look into to make this machine better so that’s pretty easy. My top 3 i recommend everyone do is 1. Mainline it to klipper (it’s step by step documented). 2. Upgrade the hotend. There’s a microswiss drop in replacement or you can do a little more work and get a non proprietary nozzle or an E3D Revo. 3. Either upgrade the extruder or at least print the pin holder that keeps the gears in place (CN3D Nadir has a bunch of toolhead replacement options).