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@Rasp @lapis ofc I say that but from what I remember of my mom's complaints from her career doing digital typesetting and graphic design while I was growing up, as well as things like the printer being finicky at a high school summer job... This isn't really a new problem. Part of it is just endemic problems to the format. You need a lot of small gears and such, plus either high heat or ink that is going through very small nozzles that are easy to clog, etc etc. Same sort of pattern has happened to sewing machines, really. Plastic as a material has its limits, and other materials are often much more expensive, plus the designs need to do more and more mechanically as more features are added. Affordable, solid construction that is not meant to fail or wear out, or fully featured: pick any two, because all three is impossible.
Given the problems I also remember my mother having with things like "the urgent update for the driver is released for Macintosh first and windows will get it in a few weeks", back when Macs were absolutely preferred for graphics design work... Well, it's likely been even worse for Linux historically.
That's why it's become an established cultural joke of how printers will give up on you at the most inconvenient time possible and are generally ornery bastards. Only gets worse when the printer isn't just a printer but also a copier, fax, etc... Roll the relevant movie clip lol https://youtu.be/_KinUMIS3Yc
Basically, I congratulate you on your extraordinarily good luck, but do not doubt that things like the comic lapis posted arise from genuine problems that other people have even if you might not lol
@wigglytuffitout @lapis
Like its also not an inkjet printer is a laser printer and most of the parts that are likely to wear out quickly are built into the massive toner cartridges by design specifically to avoid the kind of problems you get with an inkjet printer.