In the end it somewhat boils down to pure greed. Instead of stabilizing production costs and/or reusing generic components to ease up manufacturing and repair - HP, Epson, Canon, Dell, Samsung, Kyocera and others try to hype their products with whatever tech stack is currently in trend. "growth hacking" is literally their job description.
There eventually will be a ChatGPT printer on the market. It's inevitable due to what kind of people manage a printer business: It's not the type of people that know how to build printers anymore.
One of the best bits was the no nonsense Windows drivers and easy Linux Postscript compatibility that just worked out of the box.
I was willing to forgive a whole lot of flaws due to it's low price, but it turned out have very few.