Yeah me neither. Brother printers seem to be the least shitty ones these days. I wonder how long that's going to last. Corporations just can't resist.
I have an old B&W MFC that I was thinking of maybe upgrading but to be honest I have to real reason to other than to get colour and maybe document feeding for scanning but I print so rarely that I probably won't now as Brother was going to be my one and only port of call for this.
When did this happen?! Can we get older versions still maybe?
No, new Brothers are fine. A while back where were a very few models that got a questionable firmware release. As I recall, they weren't common retail models. The firmware might have been a beta.
Brother got some crap for it, people circulated the IPs of their update servers (for blocking) and that was the end of it.
I regularly buy new Brothers for customers. They're fully fine.