The printer manufacturers are not in it to sell printers. Their main function is to sell ink.
I have avoided Epson due to their policy of chipping cartridges and sueing anybody who dares to muscle in on them. I used to have a Cannon, but it didn't take it long to decide that its waste ink pad was full, which could only be remedied by a service which would cost more than the replacement printer. Both makes seemed to insist on regular, persistent and expensive head cleaning.
My Lexmarks were OK but expensive to run, and a comment from a cartridge salesman (we dont list remanufactured colour cartridges for Lexmark because of the complaints) eventually put me off them.
My current HPs are hopefully going to carry on being boring as they just sit there and work.
A word of what might have been wisdom that I was told was that buying a high capacity cartridge is only economical if high use is anticipated, otherwise the ink in the nozzles dries and might fail to clear on the start-up.