I've long since given up on inkjets. Lasers are just no more expensive for B&W and they last longer and have vastly lower cost per page. If you need color, color lasers are still rather pricy, but no longer awful.

For multifunctions, Brother and Canon have had much better scanners in my experience than Dell or HP. One nice thing is these days the scanners tend to be able to scan to email/dropbox/google drive or a local file share without having to have any drivers on the computer.

One thing to look for is single-pass duplex scanning. I need to get both sides of things far too often for "scan the pile twice" to be acceptable, and automatic two-pass duplex scanning chokes far too often.

I can't recommend a specific multifunction device, as I use a separate Brother scanner and Dell color laser printer, and the go-to models from Brother and Canon I used to recommend have been superceded.

Specs-wise, these seem to be pretty good:
Brother MFC-L2740DW
Canon MF229dw
Canon D550

All right around $200. If your budget is higher, you can spend more on the printer being faster, on color, or on large format printing.