The only downside is that you have to print something every 2-3 months, otherwise the quality degrades noticeably for the next few printouts. But after that it has always returned to normal quality for me.
They definitely don't make them like that any more.
I wouldn't have it back these days, though. A LaserJet M203dw serves the same role in my current fleet, with vastly higher output quality and input flexibility, and vastly lower environment and consumable requirements; I've lost count of the book blocks I've used it to produce, and the next time it lets me down will be the first.
Meanwhile, the "finicky thoroughbred" role in my current fleet is filled by a Canon Pixma Pro 100, which takes eight easily refillable ink tanks and is extremely particular about which laptops it wants to be friends with. This is tolerable in a machine that produces gallery-quality 13x19 prints on demand, at incremental cost basically only of paper. For a document laser, it's been a long time since anything other than total imperturbability has been a reasonable expectation.