It is significantly less productive to hand wash dishes. But that’s fine to do manually if you wish for something that takes up maybe half an hour of your own time every several days. It’s not fine if washing dishes is your job. No company is going to hire an artisanal dish hand washer that refuses to use a dishwasher.

My parents (and many boomers in general) manually wash dishes and then still put them in the dishwasher.

It is significantly less productive to do both, and yet…