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It seems to me that if there is going to be a hardware widget mounted on the wall for the sole purpose of humans fiddling with it, then it ought to be engineered and optimized from that perspective first (UX: user experience)...

I went to the store expecting to buy a pack of nostalgia, but instead found that Mother's cookies (apparently) have cut their product line down to just the weird circus animal cookies.

https://thewisebaker.com/are-mothers-cookies-discontinued/#Do_Mothers_Cookies_Still_Make_Oatmeal_Cookies

I'm sure part of it is that open-source hardware in general is "harder" to do than software, but perhaps there is something more to it... such as people generally not wanting to invest time creating a more-crappy version of a black box that already does it's thing well enough. Perhaps it is only after printers get significantly worse or more annoying that people will start investing their own time creating alternative firmware/hardware.