I'm trying to talk my cousins into going thirdsies on it with me. $2k for a laser cutter is not the sort of expense wifey is interested in taking on at the moment, ability to etch chocolate be damned. However, I could probably make her accept $666. Make her happy? Notsomuch. But accept... The marginal utility on it is off the charts compared to an Ember. By way of comparison, an Epilog Zing 16 is $8k. So this isn't a "zomg 3d printing" sort of thing, this is a "an existing market segment of extremely high utility just had its pricepoint kicked by 75% or more and its usability expanded by orders of magnitude" thing. Laser cutters have been around for 30-40 years, but they've only slowwwwwwwwwly come down in price. You mostly see them at trade shows; Epilog sells to instrument manufacturers at NAMM, for example. Almost nobody markets laser cutters to mommies with craft projects.