The brother printer my spouse has had for ages is finally running out of ink and a quick chedk shows that they don’t make cartridges for it anymore, you cant reset them, and you can only buy dubious 3rd party options on amazon for $150 each. For that kind of money id rathet find a printer that let’s me put of the scam, but im not finding a lot of options there. Does anyone have advice?

Epson will say it’s out of ink when it’s not just so you have to buy more. It’s enshittified too. Also, I bout a nice one and it was broken within a week. That was about 10 years ago though.
okay. that sucks for you.
I’ve been using mine for years. no issues.