I think the biggest change has been auto bed leveling, and software to make the first layer good almost all the time, across a wide range of filaments.

Many people started with something like an Ender V3, then moved to Bambu... and that is absolutely life-altering in terms of 3D printing expectaitons. But a similar difference is present moving to a modern Ender, Elegoo, or Prusa. Just their marketing is far from as solid as Bambu.

Not that Bambu printers are bad; in fact I still like their AMS solution the best of any I've seen or tested.