"Freshness" is one of the reasons I seem to mostly print w/ ABS.

My print volume is not so high at the moment that I get through a spool of anything very quickly, so PLA becomes quite brittle, fairly quickly relative to my rate of usage.

Heh..., I've literally been in one room, 3d printer (off and not operating) in another room, and I've heard "click-tinkle-tinkle" as the section of PLA leading from the spool to the extruder just breaks..., in what seems a low stress and odd place.

Haven't gotten up the nerve to try any of the PLA "restoration" tricks.

So..., ABS it has been...

FWIW..., I've only used Makerfarm stuff thus far.