I have an Ender 3 S1 that I use every couple of months at this point because it’s just such a pain to use. I have to adjust the bed tramming and z offset and run auto bed leveling for every single print and often times that’s still not good enough.
It will often take 30+ minutes just to get the first layer going down successfully.
Is this a me problem or did I lose the creality lottery?
On my i3 clone, printing leveling wheels that fit pretty tightly on the bed screws (so they wouldn’t back off) and swapping coiled metal springs for silicone bushings greatly reduced how often I had to level my bed. After that, the most useful thing I did was swapping an ultrabase glass bed (this was before PEI spring steel was widely available) and getting in the habit of keeping it clean.