I totally get your point, and patents will clearly happen with this, no question about that.

But It’s not the only toolchanging setup on the market. So if it has to compete with some affordable toolchanging options, they could use that to match their prices or even undercut them.

Bambulab does have some pretty cheap and good printers and they apepar to have a long-term goal of making a platform more than just printers, so I could see them making a cheap toolchanger. Certainly not an open one, that’s not what they do.

You are probably right, but I like to hope, once in a while, in a world where hope is pretty much lost in many respects.