Who the heck wants wifi on their washer? And a cellphone app? Silly! Expensive and it will break down. Dumb dumb dumb!
Also, if you have ever looked at the circuit boards in modern appliances, they are dirt cheap to make and not designed for reliability.
The newer, energy friendly, appliances are a lot more complicated in how they operate and tend to have lighter mechanisms and tend to work harder too. A washer will spin cycle longer to remove more water with the thought that drying time will be less.
Appliance makers have missed the mark by a mile.
They need to rethink their business model. Until then we will not buy American!
Here are the requirements....
1. Lasts 25 years. But then GE would sell fewer dishwashers and make less money. Planned obsolescence by selling crap.
2. Simple basic and reliable. No bells and whistles. We can figure out how to twist knobs and push buttons. We are smarter than your average chimp so treat us like it.
3. Robust parts. See #1 above.
4. Nice to have — energy efficient. But not at the sacrifice of quality and reliability.
Remember that that newer broken down washer will end up in the landfill sooner. So make them reliable and >>>save the environment!<<<
Simple answer: Buy a commercial washer (e.g. Speed Queen). They are not yet subject to the same level of enviro restrictions and they are built to be reliable. Not as quiet, and cost more, but fast, gets clothes clean and reliable.
It’s somewhat ironic that GE became an industrial powerhouse by making quality products domestically. Now they’re a shadow of their former self after producing crap offshore.
Yet a long train of executives likely retired with very generous pensions for destroying a once great company over the decades.
Seems like the first few companies that would take a more time-honored approach could corner the market once word got out that they were making dependable products that were a good value...