Why is prime tower required to enable flushing into objects?

This might be a silly question, but why do I need to enable the prime tower in order to be able to flush into the object’s infill or support?

Couldn’t we just use a combination of flushing excess into the chute and then into the object/support?

I can’t think of a good reason why you still need it - especially if you are not overly worried about the quality of your ‘flush-into’ objects.

You can reduce the size of the prime tower quite a lot.

I have also ran a few tests with the prime tower completely removed (by gcode post processing) and the flush-into objects and prints still looked ok to me.

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