[Symbiote]

> if you want to spend time customizing and upgrading and tinkering with a 3d printer go with another brand like Prusa.

Prusa is the company making reliable, open and therefore repairable/upgradable printers. But reliable is first, and the majority of Prusa printers will not be modified from purchase.

[dekhn]

I did not find my Prusa (MK3 upgrade to mk3s and also a new mk3s) to be reliable. It had all sorts of failure modes and eventually I stopped using both of them. I did repair both of them a few times but the extruder design is just really inconvenient. I replaced it with a printer that cost far less - cheap enough that after a few years, if it started to behave poorly, I'd replace it with another cheap printer (after reading reviews to make sure its constraints were consistent with my workflow).

Prusa did some great stuff but the market copied the good stuff and evolved past them.