I think the place where I would love to live forever would be Stone Hill zone in the first Spyro the Dragon video game. I guess the whole world in that game is wonderful, but something about those beautiful rolling hills, and that wonderful music feels like heaven to me. It's simple but I always felt this way about it.
These are very edge-case, and I only mention it because you had a lot of helpful details that eliminated stuff, but could the gap between the extruder drive and the hotend opening be too far apart? I've had a problem kind of similar where it would jam up the filament there. Otherwise, the other outlandish thing I could think of is maybe the inside of the hotend is pitted and damaged, but that is not as likely.
I hope this helps at all, or maybe gives you some kind of idea. Good luck!
I think the place where I would love to live forever would be Stone Hill zone in the first Spyro the Dragon video game. I guess the whole world in that game is wonderful, but something about those beautiful rolling hills, and that wonderful music feels like heaven to me. It's simple but I always felt this way about it.