Does Farcaster have a 3d printer recommendation? 

Creality seems to have squandered their rep 

Prusa is out of my price range 

Bambu looks interesting, but is new enough to be unproven 

Anycubic and Elgoo seem to have goo entry-mid range offerings with the Kobra and the Neptune

What’s your price range and are you looking to learn the ins and outs or just hit print?

mechanical design engineer. 

I like to make stuff. 

Currently interested in: 3D printing, product design, hard tech, space. 

I don't mind learning a bit, but would like to just hit print most of the time. 

Hoping to stay below $600-700.

if you are ok with tinkering and spending a lot of time trial and error’ing go with some form of ender 3. Will learn a lot and save money at the cost of headaches and time. 

If you want to hit print and not worry go with a Bambu Lab P1P (also prints ~3x the speed as the others unmodified). This is my current machine