I think it's a bit premature to say Prusa is floundering. If they were a VC funded startup with billions of debt needing to grow x% YoY to prevent a catastrophi

I think it's a bit premature to say Prusa is floundering. If they were a VC funded startup with billions of debt needing to grow x% YoY to prevent a catastrophic implosion I would agree. Prusa seems reasonably self sufficient though and if they stop growing or shrink I wouldn't say they've failed. I think some people forget that businesses can still continue to exist, pay their employees well, and that's success. On the other hand, Bambu still has to prove itself as sustainable in this regard and if they're selling their printers with tiny margins (or even at a loss) we've yet to see what their actual plans are, and with an ecosystem comes the potential for exploiting customers. They've already been dishonest in terms of their use of OSS. And while Bambu did "steal" some software, their hardware seems reasonably novel - I don't think they've exploited Prusa specifically, and any trouncing they've done is because Prusa sat on the MK3 a bit too long. One last thing is I think Bambu and Prusa can coexist. Prusa evolved from RepRap and combine both out of the box quality and DIY-ability, which is still a good draw for the same kind of tinkerers after a printer in the first place. In the other hand, Bambu products are the Apple/HP of printers - you dont do any tinkering even if you want and if it stops working you send it back.