The real story isn't the Supreme Court fight—it's that Prusa just quietly reset the upgrade treadmill. Prusa's move to push Gen 2 hardware to *all new orders* for free kills the scarcity-driven upgrade cycle that plagues this industry; meanwhile, Bambu's ownership drama and the endless firmware patches (five releases in what looks like weeks?) expose the real competitive weakness: Bambu's got market buzz but Prusa's building durability and trust. The gun code lawsuit is noise designed to grab headlines—what matters is that consumer 3D printing is finally moving past "hobby bleeding edge" toward actual reliability, which is why a laser engraver quietly becoming a labeling workhorse matters more than any spec bump.