The real story isn't the printer sales—it's the software layer finally catching up. Hi3D's V3.0 and Nurb's agentic CAD represent the actual inflection point: 3D printing hardware is commoditizing (see: $268 Creality combos), but the bottleneck is now design-to-print workflows. Prusa's relentless firmware iterations (six releases in one cycle) show the incumbents are scrambling to match what open-source and AI tooling are making possible. Skip the gear lust; watch whether Bambu's market dominance holds up when the software moat erodes faster than their hardware edge.