Kind of towards the 3d printing industry and greed in general. The RAMPS guys didn't offer a successor when they were in the perfect position to do so after hav

Kind of towards the 3d printing industry and greed in general. The RAMPS guys didn't offer a successor when they were in the perfect position to do so after having built a large diy community of RepRappers and opensource 3d-printing. The 32-bits transition is better and cheaper on the BOM compared to the Mega2560. The speed boost is really useful when you want to add more advance control algorithm for your motors for robotics application. Creality CR-10 quality was just better and it was the beginning of the transition away from open standards. A slow but sure erosion of what was once a great flexible community solution, where what was built by open-source is being privatized. Chinese clones replicated CR-10 model each with their own control board. But when your machine is repairable, you can't sell it for a lot more than the sum of individual parts, so the whole economics of how much a control board that run marlin is got delirious. This trend continue today with the emergence of companies like BambuLabs. The whole arc makes me sad, as 3d-printing is the entry point for many makers around the world and these initial core values of really owning your hardware stack are important. For building robots, building your own 3d printer was a great introduction. Being able to replace a fried motor driver because your robot took an unexpected fall for cheap is kind of essential. If every time a part break you need to pay more than €100 and more than to 2 weeks of delivery time, you can't test and push your machines. Whereas if you are using standard parts, you'll have a stock of them, and it will be €5 and 5 minutes and you are good to go, and the mistake is forgotten, and the lesson learned.