[hevi_jos]

Yes, if you don't value your time then yes, buying an Ender and modifying it is a better deal.

I am part of a Spanish 3D printer group called "clone wars", and dozens of people there have bought Enders because they are dirty cheap.

It really takes a master degree in engineering to solve most of them, because they want to print professionally expending 300euros.

That connects with the point 4, yes people want everything, expending nothing. But that they could get it is a completely different thing.

As the print bed goes bigger, the mechanical deflections increase with the square of it.

The price of things like milled precision beds or original linear rails, increments non linearly for a tolerance when the size of the bed increases.