EDIT NOTICE: I accidentally wrote "A1 Mini" in the meme instead of just "A1" out of habit. There's no proof for the Mini to also be affected yet. My bad, sorry. It's the A1 that might burn your house down.
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I agree with your take on all of them except Anycubic, if you can get them for cheap. By that I don't mean the forever sale on their website. I started with a used anycubic that I got for less than $100.00 USD. While it does suck it let me see if I actually wanted to spend more money on this hobby or not. I'm already looking into getting a Prusa someday but for now it's enough. So there is a spot for Anycubic, it's entry level for printing curious.
Agree 100%. My first printer was a cheap Kobra 2. I had a lot of problems with it and I'm not sure if it's because of the printer or because I was changing settings without knowing what I was doing.
At any rate, I wanted something better and didn't want anycubic, but Kobra 3 with AMS was only $299 at the time so I got one. It worked great. I started on some large printing projects and ended up getting a second one for $299 to spread the workload around.
I have about 600 hours on both and they've both been great. I have a Snapmaker U1 but I'm going to keep using the Kobra 3s for basic prints as long as they last.
I have quite liked my resin anycubic. Not sure about the filament style they make but they seem to know how to make resin printers.