I'll just say this. For years I felt a lot like certain members on here, although I wasn't as vocal about it I will say that much. Kept buying top load washers, even used ones, because I couldn't wrap my head around an FL that worked, only heard the horror stories and didn't listen to what they can actually do for people. When the control board died on my previous Whirlpool TL I bought an LG WM4000 front load washer and I'm never going back to a TL. If you throw on an extra rinse or two, it actually rinses better than any top load washer I've ever owned. My wife has super sensitive skin and she used to itch constantly, even switched to free and clear detergents and she was still itchy. I'm using regular Tide powder with downy now in the FL and what do ya know? She doesn't itch at all anymore. Clothes generally smell better, feel better, and I imagine look better. And I've been able to cut down to about 1-2 loads of laundry a week instead of the previous 3 or so I used to do owning TL's. I still have a standard Whirlpool dryer and the LG washer spins clothes so dry that the WP dryer makes work of them in no time. I love my FL and am so glad I gave it a chance. That's the thing, people think something is great in its time, i.e., water-hungry TL washers, but then innovation happens. Washers use less water, dishwashers use less water, and both are much quieter and can handle much more laundry and dishes. Wouldn't it actually be kind of a problem if things were exactly as they were 30 years ago? Stagnation is the enemy of progress, and this is coming from someone who struggles with change, I have emotional regulation issues and change really throws me off-track. But I also know that change is the only constant in life.