Historically (at least in orgs that aren’t maximally toxic) software engineering has actually had a great culture of seniors helping Junior and midlevels grow. IME most of us enjoy mentoring, and further enjoy having someone else who can do the boring shit for us. It’s why, despite incompetent management being the norm, the industry has succeeded as much as it has.

Unfortunately I think this is changing now. The ownership class has finally pushed too far and I think a sizeable portion of us have realized that we devs have to stop maintaining the engineering cultures of our orgs to fight back.

If you have the money I’ve had nothing but good experiences with Prusa, and I had tons of bad experiences with the cheap printers I had before.

I can only speak directly to their bed slingers, but if I was buying today I’d probably get their new coreXY model.