Looking to replace my Costco ET-2850

I bought this printer from Costco about a year ago but barely used it until recently. While black-and-white printing works fine, the color prints only come out partially, missing certain colors. I ran the built-in cleaning cycles Nozzle Check, Head Cleaning, and Power Cleaning, which temporarily brought some colors back, but the prints still show empty lines.

From what I’ve seen, this seems to be a common problem with this model. It makes me wonder if Epson wasn’t fully committed to selling these and just offloaded them cheaply through Costco. I’m considering replacing it with the Canon MegaTank G3270, which is currently discounted on Amazon, but I’m worried about running into similar issues. It looks like the Epson sometimes requires third-party maintenance kits and even software hacks to reset it.

Are there any reliable color printers under $300 you’d recommend? I remember Epson used to have printheads integrated into the cartridges, so if there was an issue, you could just swap the cartridge and be back up and running quickly.