I agree in part, but I think you're overlooking a big tradeoff here. Printing with plastic filaments gives you a fairly weak piece, but leaves open the door for a lot of post-printing finishes (surface smoothing, using the piece as a positive image to invest, melt out, and cast as metal, etc). You give up a lot of those opportunities printing CF strands, so this printer really does need to be able to produce pretty strong parts to have a competitive advantage big enough to offset those tradeoffs. It definitely does not have to achieve traditional carbon fiber strength to be worthwhile, but it needs to be considerable.
I'm not overlooking that at all. The point here is that it addresses a different and interesting use case and is ultimately a welcome addition to the market.
