Honestly for me its a tossup. The firmware tuning is slowly getting there. However in the deltabot realm the current firmware is fine if you want to print toys as Angelo pointed out. However the practical sense of the matter is that you can only do so much with the way we have these printers designed. I looked at getting a lashles deltabot setup. The cost would be sky high. No more belts and direct drive worm gear in the 20mm thick range to ensure stability. At those points, the freaking machine would cost as much as a car. However I have faith in some newer designs and new availability of hardware to cut costs considerably down. To keep precision on these newer designs higher microstepping is required as the sides would be directly driven by the motor. No longer relying on pulley action, with very coarse machined screws which would mean 360 degree turn would equal 5-8mm depending on pitch and thread size, to regain the resolution it would be necesary to have over 1/16 microstepping. Also the higher frequenceis tend to cause less interference with other electronics.
I may be blowing this out my butt, but its my thought train on the matter. Correct me if I am wrong.
I may be blowing this out my butt, but its my thought train on the matter. Correct me if I am wrong.