>> I just want normal buttons and dials back. Not time-based capacitance buttons that take 5.02 seconds to activate, not 5.0 seconds; nor free-spinning encoder wheels that mandate you give it a jiggle before the washer does anything, even if it's already on the setting you want.

> The problem with kerchunk-a-wheels and real pushbuttons (and the not-smarts they imply) is that they're expensive.

> They're more expensive (and more failure-prone) than the rotary encoders, mush-buttons, and brain-boxes that replaced them.

Capacitance buttons also failure-prone because they literally don't work half the time. The GP was also describing other failures with the modern style controls.

I'm tired of this gaslighting: "kerchunk-a-wheels and real pushbuttons" work and are more reliable. I have literal first hand experience with them working reliably for decades. I also have literal first hand experience with capacitance buttons, etc. constantly not working from day one.

The only bit of truth to your argument is they may be more expensive. But I'll take [slightly] more expensive and working over not working any day.

And if you disagree with me, I'll sell you an empty box as a dishwasher. It won't work, but it'll be less expensive!

It is with immense displeasure that I find that my playful descriptions have been interpreted as "gaslighting" by someone on the internet who suffers from selection bias.

If your intent is to demonstrate that there is nothing here that can be discussed, then: Congratulations. You've accomplished that.