Excepting the high-end stuff, ~zero purchasers prioritize your "simple, functional, reliable". Compared to pretty much every other tech product, printers have

Excepting the high-end stuff, ~zero purchasers prioritize your "simple, functional, reliable". Compared to pretty much every other tech product, printers have lots of moving parts. Especially the nightmare called paper. Talk to a engineer some time about how wildly the mechanical properties of paper can vary - even before you leave it sitting around unsealed, at whatever humidity and temperature.