Yes, speculation founded on literal decades of experience, i mean you’re free to stamp your feet and complain that bambu makes so much money they can just afford to give it away, but that is not the reality of business, there are zero businesses that operate that way for a reason
I can make safe assumptions based on how you present yourself, and i’m pretty confident you’re not in charge of a company on this scale, by all means correct me if i’m wrong and you are infact part of the leadership team for a massive global entity
Its a phased rollout, EU is likely the testbed as their rules happen to be the most restrictive so aslong as something can work fine under EU laws it should work fine elsewhere, they aren’t going to just drop it everywhere at once without testing it
And not sure what “transparency” you are expecting, bambu is free to release new products without running it past you or i first and they are under no obligation to explain the rationale behind it either, we are the customers and the only vote we get is with our wallets should we choose to make our opinions known
In most cases people aren’t going to be using the giftcards to buy entire printers so they are likely catering their offerings to how most people use the site, and in that regard its actually a better deal for the average user