We have a front load Whirlpool (LG) washer. I’m not impressed with it. On the plus side, it does seem to use very little water and detergent. On the minus side, it takes a long time – shortest normal wash cycle is 40 minutes. At the end it spends about 5 minutes doing this stupid BS where it just rotates the barrel slowly in one direction and then the other. I don’t think it adds anything to the proceedings.
The big issue for me though is that the outer barrel never completely drains. You can’t leave the door closed or else the washer gets funky and mildewy fast. So we have this fancy washer and we have to always leave the damn door open when it’s not being used. Even then, every now and then I still need to run an empty load with a little bleach to get rid of the funkiness.
Top load washers don’t have this issue because the door does not need to be air & water tight.
