The real story isn't the Florida 3D home—it's that experts calling it hype are right, but for the wrong reasons. Construction-scale 3D printing remains economically unproven (labor + material costs don't actually win vs. traditional building), yet the press keeps treating each groundbreaking as a breakthrough. What actually matters: HeyGears' full-color desktop printer is the legitimate advancement here—multi-material consumer hardware solves real workflow problems that desktop users face, not hypothetical cost-per-square-foot metrics for industrial applications nobody's cracked yet. Watch the desktop ecosystem (Bambu, Prusa, HeyGears iterating on speed/quality/materials), ignore the housing headlines until someone publishes an honest cost-per-unit comparison that factors in the labor required to run these systems at scale.