I am the go-to guy for 3D printers for quite a few people. Everyone who has an Ender 3 had them up and running in a short time, and all of them printed out of the box without issues.

I had one guy who fell into the trap of buying every possible upgrade and it took a while for us to get it going with all the upgrades, but other than that, an Ender 3 is a solid first machine.

Sure, it's not as great as some other machines out there, but these other machines don't cost <€250 on Amazon.

Anything better than the Ender 3 v2 will get you into diminishing returns territory very fast.