If your requirements deviate in any way from the common use cases envisioned by the designer, you will spend more time wrestling “it just works” into doing what you want than you would have spent on the setup of “flexible, but requires a little setup”.

Hi Engineer here. Nothing “just works”! That is a simple matter of perspective. Countless hours of mental anguish go in to projects with work arounds and bandaids, so something looks like it “just works”.

And this perspective is coming from someone who has not used the product he is shitting on. I love my A1 mini. And will I upgrade the firmware? No, it already does what I need. But the majority of users who are not us are fine with a closed system. Hell, I think “normal” people even prefer closed systems. I also love my pain in the ass Ender 3 with my raspberry pi and octoprint.

TL; DR - Dude likes KDE and Prusa 3D printers.