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This would be stretching the budget, but there are a few Voron variants that aren't that much out of your price range. You're going to be giving up print volume though.
Vorons are fully open sourced, very capable, etc. There are a number of vendors who offer both BOM in a box, as well as customized BOMs. There are a ton of officially endorsed user mods and plenty of community mods too.
They are a little overbuilt, but they're very capable. Depending on what you're looking to print material wise, you could shed some cost by not enclosing your printer. Or you could print magnetic panel mounts and pull panels off when needed...
The more mainstream recommendations these days are Enders (fine, cheap, expect to need to tinker), Sovol (new kid on the block), Bambu (look familiar? there's some controversy around their always connected cloud model), and Prusa (reliable, somewhat pricey given their capabilities).
I do really like the Vorons and while I have no problem building one myself, it's a bit much for this go-round. When I replace (or supplement) whatever I buy this time, it'll be on the short list.
The build was... pretty long if we're being honest. Post build setup (setting up the pi, tuning) was pretty straightforward though and I had reliable prints with the stock profiles basically right off the bat with no real tuning beyond esteps and x-offset. I'm still fiddling a little, but the nice thing about a Voron is whatever you do will be super repeatable thanks to things like mechanical bed leveling. I'm also finding that ASA is a very tough material to print with.