> And other people choose to wash dishes by hand and they're fine with it and not significantly less productive. The use of a dishwasher wasn't forced on everyone.

That's completely, demonstratively false. Our dishwasher broke and we couldn't replace it for a month for different reasons – it was a complete nightmare. Without dishwasher:

- You need to have a space to store dirty dishes

- You must wash them right away, unless you want smell of rotten food that attracts all sorts of nasty from insects to rodents

- You need to have a big enough kitchen sink to wash comfortably

- You need to have a steady supply of hot water in the kitchen

- You need to have a supply of latex gloves, unless you want your hands to look like they're 50 years old

- You need to have a drying rack

- It takes a shitton of time compared to loading dishwasher, starting it and forgetting about it

- You need to clean up everything after you're done