I wonder if it would have continued spinning if it fell on its front like it looked it was going to do.
I have one of those little Haier things I bought for mom's retirement apt, but she could not manage it and sent everything home with me. John and I figured that if you were stuck in an apartment with a GE combo, one of these could extract well enough to almost make the drying time reasonable even if you had to spin the load in two or three batches. I will say that it has a far better wash action than the little GE portables from the 70s since it has a rapidly reversing impeller. I don't think it performs very well if loaded to full capacity.
Three weeks ago, John left a load of jeans washing in that behemoth hybrid Kenpool of his in which he installed a rare high speed spin pulley and from which he removed the Kenmore unbalance switch since Whirlpool never used one. It finished the cycle with the front of the machine facing the wall. We think the hoses sort of constrained and guided its range of travel and prevented damage to the cabinet.