This discussion is getting old. I don't care about your purchase, it is in the past. The purpose of this thread was to discuss the poster's problem which others have verified and lawsuit settlements have confirmed it. Just do a Google search. Appliance repair technicians who are content creators confirmed this as well.
This is predominantly a discussion of anecdotal evidence. If all you want to believe is CR, go ahead, I don't care. Their information is vague at best and their weighting is questionable. I am providing advice based on a mixture of my own experiences, experiences of family and friends, and technicians I have either talked to or watched videos of. The videos can be very useful as they will show the performance on things such as the clothes washers where you can really see the performance of certain models, certain clothing with certain dirt, the models opened up to see the thickness of the belt, motor suspension, and common problems. I find that to be superior to vague graphs. In pastimes such graphs might have been One of the few sources of information available, but I believe technicians demonstrating things provides better information. Each person can decide what fits their life the best.
I don't claim my suggestions to be scientific survey. I'm not seeing where you are providing anything more than your opinion.
The refrigerator I have is still in production, this experience would still be valid, my parents bought a side-by-side 2-3 years ago and it has been fine (not that I consider such a short period of time to be noteworthy but since you want to dismiss my point). The dryer has gone through extensive revisions cheapening the controls and door but the core design is roughly the same, and family and friends who are using the cheapened versions so far are doing great. The washer isn't in production anymore (hence why I recommended commercial washer units as recommended by technicians). From the modern ones, one friend has a Maytag commercial top loader ( the model found in laundromats minus the coin machine) for at least 5 years now and it has been flawless so far, my aunt who's family are in agriculture use a 10 year old fisher paykal, it isn't perfect but it gets used constantly, and others use speed Queen and rave about them. The stove has been flawless ( as was our Whirlpool gas range we installed in the rental house 2 years ago but again I don't see the relevance of such a new product, but I will say it was a dramatic improvement over the unit it replaced which was a house brand rebadged GE from 15 years prior or my Grandmothers Frigidaire from the same era for the sake of discussion).
The examples I cited were from the experiences that I have had and I helped make the decisions on the side by side fridge and the gas stove, so I have been testing them. I also used other family members and friends appliances and have help me judgments from that as well. I also refrained from using examples that I know are way out of date such as a late '90s Whirlpool dishwasher that still works as that technology is clearly no longer used in any form versus my dishwasher internal components seem to be similar to certain entry level washers ( though not identical as the repair parts have different part numbers) used at this time from Whirlpool and family members who have used those seem to have reliable outcomes so far from around 3-4 years ago. Another could be my grandmother's at least 20 years old bottom fridge top freezer along with our rental house bottom fridge top freezer, or are probably 50s era vintage GE deep freeze, but that's all clearly long discontinued tech so I didn't use that as the evidence, I use relatively recent.
