Comment by Aurornis

> What are you talking about? Show me one survey that shows DIY crafts as a whole becoming more popular in the past several decades.

Entry level 3D printer sales (the kind you buy from Prusa or Bambu Labs) have been surging for years.

You could Google this and find a thousand articles about it. The entry-level segment has grown massively and continues to expand https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/context-industrial-growt...

> Sure, but that's a given because the technology didn't exist until very recently.

I built my first 3D printer over 10 years ago. The latest printer I bought is much more refined, but it's still stepper motors, belts, a gear driven extruder, and a nozzle like my original printer. The technology has been around for a long time. The popularity explosion is recent.

> A vanishingly tiny proportion of families in the US or in the EU own 3D printers and use them.

We're talking about hobbies and that's how hobbies work, yes.

The hobby is growing significantly, though. Arguing that most households don't have a 3D printer is just a strawman.