for one thing, that post serves several purposes, it takes care of the issue of people placing things over top of the impellor, which no one was following directions in the first place of keeping a view of the center spot open, but complaining about....and does away with that 2 dollar downy ball found in earlier machines....
this is not as bad one would think, their getting better at it, I have a regular belt drive with the standard impellor, which really needed more water added......this machine, at least this cycle, does take care of that.....
for someone who owns one, seems to do away with all that pausing/wasting time between selections.....that's a good benefit....
curious of the load sensing in this one.....it didn't do a bunch of spins when he first started it to decide how much water was needed......could be a thing about the Deep Wash cycle......
curious to see what the PowerWash does on this machine......does it mean they finally added the waterfall feature?....
I know, it takes some time to get past the H2Low water levels of these machines....now having both a belt drive and a direct drive, I can compare of which does a better job, and that would be the belt drive, at least for now....it has a different way of washing......think of Catalyst cleaning, or along the lines of the MagicMinute of concentrated detergent spread across the load before more water is added, a deep pretreater if you will.......and most rinses are just a spin spray, but its along the lines of a twintub, saturate and then extract....
as much as I want to disclaim these machines......it does work...once you get past the mental part of what traditional machines do......granted too, these don't do well on certain loads, Bulky for one, this is not something you want to wash a comforter in and expect great results, that has always been left to a FLer......
these machines tend to focus on the older generation of traditional set up.....like my mother, who cannot handle a Fler for loading, even with pedestals.....the Calypso worked better for her......as well as the drop down door of the dryer......may not be the best, but fits the need....