I agree. That’s probably the more appropriate choice. But a high-end hobby machine would be in the 2-4K range with a much larger bed and capabilities that exceed the GF in almost all cases. You can even get blue laser heads that attach to the router or spindle mount and get both CNC (for physical machining) and a laser for burned engraving - the CNC can do a lot of engraving using different bits without the laser but won’t get the char that darkens many laser engravings. You won’t get the capability to do extremely thin items like paper although veneer is doable. You also get the ability to cut (mill) aluminum and brass.
If going that route, the OneFinity is an excellent machine with serious capabilities that probably out paces almost any other machine less than 10K. A few of the folks here have that machine.
Oh, a CNC is slower than a laser even a slow one like the GF. In the pantheon of CNC machines, the speed laggard is resin 3D printing, FDM 3D printing, CNC routers and then lasers.