My guess would be it’s the “safe” option especially if avoidance calculation isn’t actually being done (also may not even work well with diff printer configs, multiple models). And yeah, slow Z travel.
Though I haven’t done 3D printing in a while (I should have kept it simple) so I don’t know. I would probably try to use some other print as a purge if possible, either via infill or just something that doesn’t matter (utility or will be painted anyway).
These days I don’t really buy things ever, I mostly play free games if even that. Less hopeful of the industry, feel like I wasted money. Later purchases were more patient, but disappointment there only slowed it even further.
This is a me problem (and a lack of income), but I sort of see it as being patient to a fault.
I am talking within the context of mental/physical health issues and never having made anything close to a game. Personal despair, isolation, lacking viable options, collapse.
So it’s more of an existential crisis. I am guessing there are probably some idioms about learning/practicing survival skills when the ship you’re on is already sinking.