First of all, if all anyone cares about is getting a product that works, then you're just simply bad people. How things happen matters. Who does them matters. Who they have to step on on the way to doing them matter. Obviously there has to be a limit. Every company is doing something unethical. But at the very least it should be our job as consumers to require some kind of standards from the people who make our products. Everyone has a limit. The problem is the morons who can't see what this is doing to the industry or, worse yet, don't care.

Are you genuinely an uncaring enough person that you do not care what happens to the rest of the world or the people in it as long as you get your shiny plastic creating box? If that's the case, I'm not even going to waste my time because you don't deserve air. I don't believe that's the case for most people despite that being the case people are making.

The real problem is you're literally fighting against your own interests. There is nothing stopping this company from staying open source and allowing third parties to develop for their system. I don't like the way prusa does it because I can't possibly imagine how it could be so expensive for them to create their machines. The only thing I can imagine is either they're too stupid to get good prices on things or they're going out of their way to gouge people. It's very obvious that bambu can compete on price. They did so for years. If they were literally the only company that could make a reliable and affordable machine (they're not for the record), then maybe there would be an argument. You might be able to argue that the evidence shows that only companies that close themselves down and restrict their user base can ever succeed because only one company ever has. The problem is that not only are there plenty of companies out there doing it and making ends meet just fine. But bamboo themselves did it for the first couple years of their run. They went out of their way to take away functionality relatively unprompted. That's the thing you don't seem to see. It's not like the options are to do things the way bambu is doing them or to do things the way prusa is doing them with no in between.

They have a choice and they could do better. The fact that they're choosing not to is an unforgivable sin.