[sokoloff]

I agree that Klipper is a big part of siphoning off the high-end userbase who was most prone to spend money on their printer parts and ecosystem.

I went Klipper a little reluctantly at first when I built a semi-custom printer and the community seemed to all lean that way. As soon as I “got it”, I switched away from Marlin and Sailfish on my other printers to now be all-Klipper. There’s nothing “wrong” with octoprint per-se, but mainsail is indeed more usable for me in the Klipper ecosystem.

[RowanH]

Some of the latest stuff in the Klipper eco system is mind bendingly awesome. I had a partially built Voron from 3 years ago that I got out of the cupboard a few weeks ago, CAN-Bus print heads, Beacon Eddy-current bed levelling system (that's just insane..), print head acceleration measurement. You can see over the past few years it's been doing what open-source sharing of ideas/code/files has lead to some incredible stuff.

It really seems like Prusa should have done something with Octoprint than trying to reinvent the wheel on their own.

Now Octoprint is left in this shrinking space between Prusa/Bambu and Voron type printers. Bambu from what I can see is the best "click and go option" (albeit going against the open source ethos to a degree) then you go into Voron realm and you're definitely using the Klipper stack there.

When I'd gotten back into it I thought "am I really going to do put this all together, why not go an XL". 3 hours of YouTube videos later it was "no way.. sticking with Voron and going all in..."