Drinking bulk lots of Prusa Koolaid or telling others to consume it without question is DUMB not all things released in the last few years by Prusa have been perfect by any stretch. Likewise as I mentioned over the current Creality release I won't be buying into it in spite of being a happy owner of three of theirs.
Where do you see me drinking the koolaid? I could point out many flaws with my Mk3. Overly packed electronics compartment, awkward extruder design (much improved with the Mk3S), highly unreliable optical filament sensor prior to the Mk3S, no instructions to lube the bearings, Y-axis bearing mounting is prone to errror... I was missing a single part from my kit, which I printed with it after assembly, and two holes (one frame, one Y mount) were slightly bunged with powder coat which would have been uncomfortable to shove a screw in - I used a tap to clean them. Oh, and the display on mine flickers during printing. I'm not sure if that's a faulty display or a cable routing issue, but it bugs me a bit. Not exactly a perfect machine, but I'm happy with it.
They have made lots of little design errors in their parts which they've slowly improved upon, and many have made modified parts which can be dropped on. And you can just print them and fit them.
And honestly, I think the whole switch-free homing and power-loss recovery are pointless features, the combination of which leads to bad results. But sure, I'm drinking the koolaid because I happen to have had decent experiences with them, that's why I'm recommending a Mk3S kit at twice the price of a CR-6 to a new us- wait, no, I never did that..
@Monkeh your position on Creality printers not working out of the box or componentry being inferior just has not been my experience AT ALL!
It has been the experience of many others, and again, I have a CR-10 here.. Let's see.
Cheap bearings in the POM wheels (but not as cheap as some).
No tensioning arrangement on the Z axis.
Controller's a copy of the old Melzi design, complete with gigantic negative transients causing the AVR to latch up on limit switch activation (it still runs - and it's hot as a toaster). They switched to a buck converter to stop the 5V reg overheating to mask this, because
they have no bloody idea what is happening.
Very cheap and unreliable encoder on the front panel which I must get around to replacing so it's actually usable. It's almost as bad as my microwave (which is a Samsung. For shame.).
Cheap no-name 12V (?! they did move to 24V finally) power supply.
Cheap and loud sleeve bearing fans everywhere.
The original hotend was, again, PTFE lined, as are current models afaik, which gives you a pretty hard temperature limit of about 230C (despite the firmware often allowing you to dial up to 280C - happy fumes and jammed hotend).
Oh yeah, and the extrusions were absolutely packed full of swarf because cleaning is effort, leave it to the customer.
The Ender 3 had issues with tube couplers, melting bed connectors (fake XT60s), it was a wild lottery as to bed surface for quite a while.. they've fixed much of this but as far as I'm concerned it's still a lottery as to what you get. At the price point, I don't think that's a horrible decision - but when people start drinking the Creality koolaid and touting the CR-6 as, and I quote, '100% THE "noob" printer', I'm afraid I have to strongly disagree and point out their track record. It may be a competent machine, right now it's a Kickstarter hype train and an early adopter disaster waiting to happen.
They have improved, and they've always been a good base and capable of competent prints with some care. I do recommend the likes of the Ender 3 and 5 (what a weird one that is, though) to people who are reasonably mechanically inclined and willing to take on a few problems, purely for budgetary reasons. The Prusa Mini is still a strong contender at its price point, although it's not exactly readily available yet (high initial demand and slow ramp in production are Prusa hallmarks, and very annoying ones at that).