The thing with forums like this is people don’t go to them to say “6 months in, zero issues, love my printer”, they go to them when they have issues
So to balance that out a bit - I had an Ender 3 for a year, constantly had to upgrade it, or swap parts, or fix something. I finally pulled the trigger and got a P1S, which a few months later I bought the P1P upgrade kit for
I’ve had the P1S/P1P for nearly a year now - I run a small ebay business - it has “just worked” every single day since I got it. Zero issues, no manual bed alignment, no failed parts, nothing. It is as close to a print and forget printer I’ve ever seen.
So quite the opposite of needing a PHD in 3d printing to use it - the bambu printers are close to dummy proof.
Yes the support is poor if you need it, but if you’re one of the vast majority of us that don’t have issues, you’ll love it.