Giant tubs killed off the DC, Maytag, Filter Flo, Unimatic, and everything else the was ever good.
The most painful thing I've come to discover is that I'm in a minority, a very, very small tiny insignificant minority. I'm one of the few that meticulously reverse engineers everything before I even consider buying it. I have to know everything about it, and it must meet very specific requirements I have in mind.
Believe me, I've hung around on appliance sales floors seeing people become happy over a Frigidaire or GE that would be taking the place of their "dated" filter flo or belt drive me to only feel enraged then becoming visually distraught. Both at what the buyer is about surrender, how they've been taught to misperceive reality, and how they're being absolutely taken advantage of while saying "thank you". And at what the sales floor has become. On my part it shows, and both myself and others come to the conclusion I am an outlier. If everyone was like myself, home appliances would become the most over engineered, redundant, durable and long lasting machines built by humans next to the generation, transmission, distribution and utilization system itself. Home appliances would truly be the symbol of "buy it for life, buy it for enternity"
Longevity would take precedence over tub size, and laundry would be sorted with joy. Multiple loads seen as a good thing, cycles and temps existing to compliment every load individually.
Of course this is just me, you and a few others. It is still hard for me to come to terms with. Worse, Whirlpool and GE has come to terms with it- it was very easy to strip away what made older machines beautiful, resilient, mathematically elegant- enlarging the tub capacity- then jacking up the price much more than the machine is actually worth without any public resistance.
