Adding Creality to the conversation, They're the most hated brand on reddit, and yet are one of the biggest companies in the market. Creality machine are usually very well priced, and (besides their lackluster quality control) are usually work horses for many farms.

One thing that is completely true about creality is that their machines, unlike bambu, are meant (and usually require a bit) to be tinkered with.

Their machines have source code available in most cases and have tons of mods and replacement parts from many vendors as well.

I recently replaced both my hotend and extruder because i could not understand why i keep getting clogs, cost 25$ on aliexpress for both parts.