I maybe a noob in CNC, but have 30 years in IT and from where I'm standing the CNC market for both reductive and additive manufacturing is in many ways analogous to where the computing market was in the early 80's. There are subtle differences (Moores Law isn't being followed per say and the internet wasn't really around then for knowledge dissemination), but alot of the behaviours, opinions and availability of knowledge and components/machines is much the same (especially in 3d printing), with the same mix of high end=mainframes, hobbyist/kit=early PC/Apple. What is missing currently is the Sinclair, Acorn, Vic etc from those times i.e. low cost of entry if not that capable, but at least enough to get into CNC and go onto to better things.

My personal take is that there is a home manufacturing wave starting/ocurring, much as there was with IT in the 80's and its all about riding that wave or sinking (lord knows there was much of both and still is in IT).

Exciting times I say and mistakes are acceptable provided you don't make them twice and not everyone wants the moon immediately, when low earth orbit is good enough to learn from ;-)

My 2 Cents/Pennies.