The benchy website has a document about how to evaluate it.

Could be an issue with flow rate, is the issues are in areas with higher volumetric flow as shown in the slicer you might need to slow down your printing or increase your extrusion temperature for those areas.

I’m of the general opinion that the hullabaloo about drying filament is largely not warranted in most cases. PLA is just not very hygroscopic and can sit out for months without any issues. Even PETG I don’t have any issues with it sitting out. The room I print in sits at about 50% humidity most of the time.

I keep most of my filaments in a box with dessicant that I bake maybe once a year, but I’m not convinced it is really doing much. The only reason I have a drier is that I started printing occasionally with materials that are much more hygroscopic (e.g. TPU).

His output gleamed well beyond his year of experience.

I call BS on that, unless that is how poor the work standard is at those companies. I’ve been finding more and more colleagues of mine will blindly generate documents with AI and the output is simply terrible. Like even if you use it to generate the information, at least go through and fix all the obvious errors and eliminate the fluff that the models love to add.