Consumer lasers kinda remind me of ~2011 era 3D printers, where the slicer and the driver could be two separate programs. Remember Pronterface?
My favorite lasers are the ones that ship with a simple combined image editor and driver application, which is CRITICAL for new users.
Software, its gonna come down to software
Anyone whose dabbled with lasers knows its basically gonna depend on how good the software support and integration is if this will make a good machine. Plenty of "good hardware" machines out there collecting dust because of bad software