This news story could be a massive ad for something like https://www.epson.com.au/v2/ecotank/ , which came up in the Reddit thread. I saw there (Porcomaster's reply) that you can get good third party ink as well, so that's really complete freedom which deserves being celebrated in contrast to HP.

I'm on an old Epson Artisan cartridge based printer currently for colour photos, but want to replace it as they are just too painful and expensive. So meanwhile I have a cheap Brother laser printer for my black and white printing, which TBH is great for the occasional use. It's on an ultra low power sleep mode most of the time, and comes to life when it needs to.