To be fair,
nothing I have ever used comes close to the Dyson for removing cat and dog hair from a very hard to clean nylon carpet quickly.
It's just, when I look how well my 1950's Kirby works (and it cleans just as well, just takes one or two swipes more) and look at how often the Dyson breaks, chokes, breaks, has another recall, breaks, the 'once every 6 months' filter needs cleaning every week...
No, sorry. They have great ideas, but it is perfectly obvious that at some point in the production process, the vacuums are run through a specialist in turning shinola into, well, something else. Squeezing every drop of quality out and making them as cheaply built as possible. They are then sold at very high prices.
Dyson deserves a special place in the hearts of everyone who likes vacuums for his designs. If his quality matched his prices, we'd be speaking of them in the same breath as Miele and Vorwerk.
Not K-Mart Blue Light Specials.