Hahah, that's a great point.
Many of these people come from WP direct drive machines which were loud as hell.
Only things louder than a DD were the Maytags from the 80s.
My parents' LA511 DROOOOOOOAAAAAAAANNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSS, so loud, you can hear it thorughout the house.
But they've never complained.
So when I read reviews online of people raking these machines across the coals for being noisy, even though they are in their own respect, they're NOTHING compared to the washers of old.
That shimmying GE is weird. Their floor must have issues or it's not properly level. No real reason a suspension rod machine should move at all like that IMO.