Personally, I don’t care about multicolor. It isn’t important for the models I print. I got the AMS to use support material so I could print complex models with a 0 z-interface support gap and get better quality. It does work for this. One thing though - it can quickly turn a 2-hour print into a 6-hour print with all the required filament changes. And, there will be a lot of waste.
I find the AMS slows things down enough with filament changes, that I don’t usually want to use it. In most cases, if I can avoid needing support, I will design my model that way.
You can speed the filament changes up a bit.
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Make some changes to the filament change g-code (based on this: Ideas on boosting speed for multi-color printing with AMS - #179 by DzzD)
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Shorten the PTFE tubes running to the AMS as much as possible.
These two changes halved my filament change times…which makes a significant difference when I do use the AMS.