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This is basically the equivalent to having passwords on a MySQL database or redis server.
Why on earth would they add a subscription? That makes absolutely no sense business wise. No one would buy their printers, and they don't have a captured market to strong arm anyone.
Bambu is patching a security issue. Personally I don't want any device or application to send any old G-code to my printer. Like say command the printer to basically destroy itself.
Could this lead to completely locking it down in the future? Yes. But they could do that anyways.
I think this is a way to stop getting their pants sued off.
If they really wanted to lock it down they could just make it so everything has to go through their servers and require files to be signed before being read from SD cards.
But instead we really have a half ass attempt.
Stuff like "I need a bash script that saves my current git branch into a temp file, then another script to create a new git branch based off the value in the file"
They have evolved into true click and forget machines.