I -- and many left coast millions -- care about water
. . . because we've gone through three periods when it was scarce around here over the past 40 years, and consciousness about water usage has been ingrained since the mid '70s.
Due to Dave's issues with incontinence after his stroke, and the fact that adult briefs are lousy at overnight containment, I find myself doing a lot of king size laundry. If we had a huge capacity SQ TL, we'd have exceeded our water allotment on a consistent basis over the past year of rationing. And as my nine year experience with an Amana SQ clone taught me, the rinsing would be, pardon the pun, piss poor.
The Affinity FL pair we have now aren't perfect, but the washer gets the job done better than the Amana/SQ old-school system, and uses a fraction of the water to do it. Even on occasions when I use the extra long spray hose from the adjacent laundry sink faucet to add water, I'm still using far less than with a TL machine.
I will never again own a TL machine for my daily driver. It's irresponsible when one's water supply is not only finite, but unpredictable.