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Srek
Since warm air rises up a printer without a top cover is more or less useless. Yes, preventing draft helps, especially with ABS (the other way a round for PLA), but if the heat escapes you will never be able to print anything even slightly larger with ABS.
Don't bother for PLA or PET(G), but i found that Nylon and most elastic materials warp less if you have a real enclosure. Again small parts are usually no problem, but anything beyond 1-2cm might already prove difficult with ABS.