The reason I asked:
Doesn’t sound like a hobby shop to me. More like a custom manufacturing facility. Heck you even called it that.
Slight update - I had a slight windfall and so have sprung for a SnapMaker 2.0 rather than a 3018, should arrive next week.
Interesting. Let us know how that works. I’d be worried that for etching and cutting that single-arm design might not be rigid enough. But I’ve never used one of those, so I really don’t know. It’s certainly a clean and elegant-looking design.