Ok, maybe a dumb question -- are printers still hard to make? Is the IP really locked down? If I search online for printer, I still see almost entirely stuff fr

Ok, maybe a dumb question -- are printers still hard to make? Is the IP really locked down? If I search online for printer, I still see almost entirely stuff from big known players (HP, Canon, Epson, Brother). I can buy a knock-off smart-watch with a heart-rate monitor and bluetooth etc, and it doesn't try to get me to subscribe to some paid cloud service b/c so far as I can tell they're happy to just sell the device. Why isn't some Chinese company that I never heard of selling a dumb printer without the authorized ink, demanded network for auto-updates nonsense, etc?