Money is a driving issue… I wouldn’t have a laser if it wasn’t for the Chinese producing them at such low cost compared to those made in a more open environment.
My $7K fiber is comparable to a US made $70K models, so I can’t complain too much that I could actually afford one of these… Much like the China Blue 50W co2, if all the parts were high quality with good support it would be 10 times the $2k I paid for it… and I wouldn’t have any of them… 
A number of us purchased a jl1 from Amazon for < $80. It has a relatively low cost laser module, 500mW, I think… so I purchased a NEJE40630 laser module (about twice the cost of the jl1) that is now mounted on the machine. I actually purchased two of them, one is still stock on the left, in the photo …
They could make a fortune with these if they would just use firmware that would support any software… most of us had to upgrade the firmware (supplied by the maker) to use Lightburn…
Here’s one of the threads, if you have any interest. When you see these for this price you have to snap them up, they don’t last long.
There are also a couple of firmware builds from other laser people…
