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What did you end up buying? I'm leaning towards Prusa again, was looking at Creality but I'm not wanting to tinker around much with that stuff anymore.
Take a week and build a Voron. The kits are super easy to piece together and you end up with an insanely great, reliable printer for a fraction what it should cost. Yes, the build time and initial calibration might take a bit, but mine's been without issue, printing 24h long prints perfectly for over a year now. You don't need to settle for a mediocre built printer if you have the patience to piece together one. Not to mention, since you built the kit, you know how to troubleshoot any issues that pop up much faster than something you pulled out of a box and plugged into the wall.
2x on the recommendation. I've been slowly modding mine for about two years now. I printed the filter and magnetic panels right out of the gate.
Things I wish I did sooner:
Other than wiring breaks, and me goobering my hod end while goofing with it, it's been dead reliable. The printer has 906 hours on it with the longest print clicking in at 25.5 hours.
Build a klicky and ditch the z-endstop if it's a 2.4
I installed Cartographer and it's nice, but not super reliable so far.
It is a 2.4 and I do have a klicky. I run a Z Caliberation macro that makes it a lot less fiddily to deal with getting offset just so. I could see using klicky to be the z end stop, but I'm done tweaking things for the time being. Maybe in the next go.