This was the play all along - roll up the competition and then shore up all the profit once dominant enough.
I bet there are plans for new firmware $-unlocked pay-to-play features, making the AMS "more compatible" with Bambu filament (or eventually only Bambu filament for the next round or two of printers) and facilitating a lot more paid transactions and model purchases on Makerworld and taking the customary 30% cut.
The dominant enough part is questionable though! There were the go to... but that was based on a calculation price, quality, lack of hostility. People were already factoring in the cloudness of it and it just came ahead. Now other options will look better even if more expensive. They are the iPhone 1 not the 3S yet.
I bet there are plans for new firmware $-unlocked pay-to-play features, making the AMS "more compatible" with Bambu filament (or eventually only Bambu filament for the next round or two of printers) and facilitating a lot more paid transactions and model purchases on Makerworld and taking the customary 30% cut.