An inkjet printer will give you 6 weeks of stunning photos, followed by a couple of years of banded text before becoming a lump of overpriced e-waste. By which time those stunning photos will have faded.
A laser will give you years of perfectly acceptable documents and mediocre images. The killer feature for home use is that unlike an inkjet, they still work after months of doing nothing.
Either way, beware devious tactics by the manufacturer (consumables with expiry dates, cloud computing, that sort of thing). Apparently Brother are recommended on the basis they haven't enshittified as much as the other big manufacturers.
(FWIW, I have a Laserjet 4050[1], bought second hand-for £<100 in about 2004. It's on its third toner cartridge. Unfortunately, it's now reached the point where the plastic parts have become brittle. We had to scrap the duplexer[2] recently, but it's only a matter of time before some more critical component snaps.)
[1] With an Ethernet module, so you can connect it to modern computers without drama.
[2] Least reliable part of the 4000 series, and an infrequent source of paper jams.