Prior to Bambu, prusa was as close as you could get to “put it together and it’s ready to print” including printer profiles and such. Bambu did this cheaper and better, and much faster, so basically took that entire market from Prusa.

For anyone that wants a printer that “just works”, there’s little reason to choose Prusa over Bambu at this point.

> the only overlap being those who bought a Prusa pre-assembled beleving it to be a one stop shop machine

Thats a surprisingly large segment of the market, though.

I bought my Prusa before Bambu became popular, and honestly I always see Prusa’s in school's and libraries and feel their main market in the United States is in that higher end role of something that is just fairly reliable and used where organizations want to provide 3d printing where a lot of different users are going to use them.

But I regularly see Bambu winning the reviews and awards these days, and I’m not sure if I would have been aware of Prusa if I were in the market today.

I really would love a multi-tool change core x y, but it’s soooo expensive.

Bambu Labs' quality and feature set is much, much higher and larger than Prusa's, and the price is right. Prusa bet on people wanting to continually fiddle with their 3D printer, but that segment is already niche and likely dying off.