[lupusreal]

Do we really want a boom in the field of half baked plastic trinkets made on a whim without much consideration put into them? I think something made on a whim is a lot more likely to be discarded. If somebody wants something made out of plastic, it should at least be something they're sure they want. Having some human time invest some time in designing it seems like a good thing.

[Larok00]

I think this is putting the cart before the horse. In my experience, the reason many 3d prints are useless trinkets (NOT functional parts) is because it takes a lot of effort to design your own custom piece. Most 3d prints that are actually useful are custom to your use case.

The amount of effort it takes makes it so that if something close enough exists, I will buy it online. If it doesn't exist I will not bother designing it from scratch since this is not a massive part of my life that I'm willing to sink much more time into than it is worth.