At the price point that it is sold at, it should have some built-in network capability such as Wifi

According to the user's manual, you need to connect it to an optional network interface device to get any network capability

It is a lot more compact than I thought it would be (which is nice).I cannot understand why networking capability (at least a basic capability) is not built-in to this and similar model scanners, since even much less expensive all-in-one's have that capability (as does a lesser expensive version of the Epson that has wireless).

The quality of scans is as good as

The quality of scans is as good as