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Steel frame is good, if it is rigid and square.
They appear to use lead screws in the Z axis- also good, but then they screw it up with two drive motors.
End supported guide rails in X, Y, and Z axes- not so good.
The drag chain bending radius at the extruder carriage looks a little small- a possible reliability issue.
No enclosure- OK if there are no kids or pets around and you don't care about printing ABS
4 levelers on the bed plate- bad. It looks like they had sense enough to use 3 bearings on the undercarriage instead of 4. Why would they use 4 levelers?
Electronics in a separate box- good for making your own enclosure around the printer mechanism.
It looks like a direct drive extruder with no gearbox- not so good.
It remains to be seen whether it has adequate power to heat the bed in a reasonable amount of time, what the bed plate material is and how flat it is, etc.