In my experience those posts are full of comments like " had my brother printer coming up 200 years, they’re solid!"

Thats all very well and good for line of printers brother were selling 200 years ago, but what are they like now? I have heard everything from “they’re essentially the same” to “brother has sold out” so now I don’t know what to think, and £500 is a lot to drop on something they might just be as bad as HP or Epsom.