Ditto re: the late '90s Amanas. We had one. It never leaked but it ate through belts and was the worst ever at rinsing, even with an additional rinse selected.
If La Grange means the Chicago suburbs, then yes, ditch the Amana and go after the Neptune. A 2004 stacking Neptune pair was left behind in the house we bought in 2018. After some discussion here, I decided to include our larger, newer Frigidaire Affinity (Electrolux) machines in our moving sale and keep the Neptunes.
The Neptune front load washer retains the design features of old school front loaders, like using enough water, three rinses on all cycles with an option for a fourth, and it goes right into a spin, unlike the Affinity, which would spend up to 20 minutes trying to balance a load prior to spin, and sometimes would just give up and call the cycle complete when it certainly wasn't.
The Neptune pair has been a joy to use and the washer gets the job done in a fraction of the time the Affinity required. No nonsense, no steam, no on-board water heater but no dumbed down hot water either, just a washer designed to get the job done efficiently and effectively, and built to last longer than any front loader on the market today -- maybe even including Speed Queen.
