Tend to agree, the A series has been a distraction while X owners have been printing with the same gear jealously looking at quick-swap nozzles and reasonably reliable AMS Lite (sans enclosure) and dreaming. I think the next iteration will need to be a big deal otherwise it’ll flop, people get jaded quite quick these days. I’m not going to update unless its value-added and not a Beta level machine.
Creality-style releases aren’t the way forward, and I don’t need BIG dimensions, what would impress me is something that honestly does Plug’n’Play. Slap a spool of whatever filament (or brand), select the filament in any place and it populates the settings across printer/AMS/slicer, load the model 3mf, Print. The current workflow can be like a pigs breakfast at times and turns me off trying to do it the Bambu way, I dropped out of the RFID tag ecosystem as it is pointless, and keep my calibration settings backed up on a spreadsheet because I have lost them before.
My attention has been drifting outside the walls, I won’t stop using my current Bambus but may spend more time on the new shiny when/if I jump on board.