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Just sounds like they're saying the "slippery slope" is false, but everything else stated was true.
3d party accessories are being disabled, and you can only use network connectivity if you connect to the cloud. They'll have a solution for using Orca Slicer, but it still needs to phone home to work.
Glad I stayed away from Bambu and went with a printer that doesn't need anything outside my network to use all the features I paid for.
What did you end up buying? I'm leaning towards Prusa again, was looking at Creality but I'm not wanting to tinker around much with that stuff anymore.
Take a week and build a Voron. The kits are super easy to piece together and you end up with an insanely great, reliable printer for a fraction what it should cost. Yes, the build time and initial calibration might take a bit, but mine's been without issue, printing 24h long prints perfectly for over a year now. You don't need to settle for a mediocre built printer if you have the patience to piece together one. Not to mention, since you built the kit, you know how to troubleshoot any issues that pop up much faster than something you pulled out of a box and plugged into the wall.
Thanks for this insight! Thanks to everyone that replied really. I'm good with building, just hate endless tweaking and tuning. Will research Voron.
There's no need to tweak and tune. I am in the camp of having a printer to print things, vs endlessly tune the printer, and my Voron is set it and forget it at this point. There are some mods worth going after for quality of life, but none are really necessary. I put a list into another reply to the person you just replied to.