Lulzbot Mini - It’s been great to learning with, and has reliably printed for thousands of hours now!
Prusa MK4 and Bambu X1 Carbon. Both are amazing in their own right.
I have a elegoo centauri, flash forge ad5m and a older printer I can not even remember the name of. Let me tell you. The centauri is fantastic. The amount of printer you get for less than 300 is amazing.
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I have an Ender 3 V2 I’ve modded so much it’s pretty much just kept its frame, and two full customs I designed and built
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Recently got a Elegoo Centauri Carbon. Amazing printer for under $300.
The two downsides for me: you cannot set an ip address for it from the printer itself (only DHCP) and… you have to be diligent in loading the filament, which is something you learn as you stumble a bit. But I’m pretty happy with it and thinking about getting a second one as I’m going through a Gridfinity phase 
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I have a creality ender 3 s1 pro that has served me pretty well now for many years. Not very fancy by modern standards, but it is very capable of printing some more exotic stuff for some mechanical prototypes that need a bit of extra durability or any other filament concerns that come up from my customers. Granted things like carbon fiber reinforced nylons and teflons is more about other things besides the printer to ensure success, but it hasn’t let me down yet.
Anycubic Kobra 2 Neo - basic - cheap - good 
It has auto-level and print well out-of-the-box. PLA with no probs, for PETG I needed profiles, my own made with LLM were abyssal.
It has only USB-C seriall and SD-card reader, but it’s trivial to make them work wireless with ESP32-based dongle.
I love it!
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I also have a Elegoo Centauri Carbon, it’s my very first 3d printer. I’ve had it since it came out and have around 250 hours of printing time on it. I’ve just had to lube it once with white lithium grease but its been rock solid. I have been eyeing the Snapmaker U1 but $850 is a bit much, true multi-color printing would be awesome.
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I just got a Bamboo P2S (my Centauri Carbon is down and parts will take a month, long story). Other than the Centauri being down I got it to be able to have 2 printers going on at the same time and to have automatic filament replacement, especially for those long nightly prints.
Both the Centauri and the P2S are a fair value at their price points, though I think Bambu has a 15-20% premium, kinda like apple does. I like them both.
If I were to have only one it would be a tough choice. The Centauri gets me all I need. The P2S adds a few nice quality of life features, but for a price.
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I have a Bambu A1 with AMS. It’s probably one of the least exciting in the list, but it is easy to use. My kids like it. My wife has printed more things than I have, and in more colors that I expected she’d go for. She is currently printing multi-color bookmarks that can be mailed to random family members as a simple thinking-of-you type Christmas gifts. Overall it works quite well for us.
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The Centauri Carbon 2 is coming out soon, hopefully they have an upgrade kit for the Centauri Carbon, the 2 looks very similar.
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Had a Bambu P1S, but the firmware debacle was the last straw…gave it to a local maker hub and got myself a Sovol SV08 instead. Took quite a while to get it running the way I wanted, but after a bunch of mods - nozzle, Eddy Duo, graphite bed - it’s the rock-solid machine it always wanted to be when it grew up. Not quite a Voron 2.4, but as close as you’re going to get for under a grand.
Might have another one on the way from a YouTuber who’s got far too many printers. Felt rude to refuse… 
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I have have had over 5 different 3d printers during the past 5 years or so. I started out with an Ender 3 V2, which I was told was great at the time. I failed with it badly and got very frustrated trying to make it work for me.
The most recent 3d printers I owned are the Artilillary Sidewinder X4 Plus (300x300 bedslinger) and a Bambu Labs Combo. Neither of these worked out for me and proved to be too difficult for me to maintain and even change nozzles in. I gave both of these away due to extreme frustration.
Since then, Bambu has come out with the P2S and H2 line, which have fixed all the issues I had with my P1S. So, after I get a decent computer, I am planning to get a Bambu H2S.
8-Dale
As posted elsewhere, had a second one turn up courtesy of a YouTuber who’d run out of space for review units:
Tomorrow’s upgrade day - firmware update (not a trivial job), eddy sensor and print some of the white TPU anti-vibration feet you can see on the old one.
Then it’s on to doing a test run and a bit of optimisation, and then I can get on with a full run of the pedalboard kits I sell to raise funds for the guitar forum I run.
These two babies should be able to properly chew through filament. In theory, I should be able to print 8 full kits a day with these two. Oddly, it should cheer the wife up…last couple of runs have been two solid weeks of printing. If this can cut that in half, it’s a lot less disruptive in the house.
At work, I have a Formlabs Form 4B Dental that we just upgraded from the Sprintray Pro 2 suite and it’s absolutely amazing. I have a post going over my first impressions of the Form 4B.
At home, I have an A1 and am hoping to add the Snapmaker U1 here soon. The A1 is alright. Does what I want. Regret not buying a printer with a built-on enclosure.