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How dare you! Jokes aside, I had the same printer, in monoprice guize, for something like 6 years before recently using it to print Voron parts.
I don't own an ender, but from watching from afar they seem as community backed, and quirky, as the i3/i3 plus were back when we bought ours.
I personally found my i3 plus to be fairly reliable/consistent, but print quality was certainly not the best. Some of the design on the i3 is a little better than the ender 3 IMO (rods vs rollers, dual z, etc), but ender 3s do have some out-of-the-box features that weren't available back then like CR touch and an extruded frame).
I wish you well in your ender 3 journey. It's amazing how cheap they are. I got my i3 Plus on sale for $250 and with inflation that's $315 in today's dollars. Meanwhile an ender 3 V3 SE can be had for $220 on Amazon without looking for any kind of deals.