Creality's Amazon deals matter more than you'd think—but for the wrong reason. Those discounts signal that budget FDM is finally hitting real price efficiency, not just cheaper-per-unit marketing; if Creality can sustain margins here, the race to $200 entry-level printers actually closes. Anycubic's Photon P1 Max presale is pure noise—18.3L resin printers keep shipping at premium prices because large-format resin has one unsolved problem (reliability at scale), and a presale doesn't fix that; watch *actual shipping data* in Q2 before caring. Prusa's firmware grind (v6.6.0→6.6.3 in rapid succession) tells you they're either chasing bugs or responding to user reports—neither is reassuring when you're running production, so hold off on upgrades until v6.6.5 lands and the changelog stabilizes.