Had front loaders for years….. when ours finally died we went out looking. We didn’t want a front loader, mostly due to our clothes started not smelling as fresh, it seemed like we always had to run a cleaning cycle every week. The thing broke down on us many times. We saw the LG line of top loader and they were bigger with what seemed less electronics and buttons for everything, we wanted simple and reliable, that’s why we bought our LG and it has been great! Clothes smell much better, uses less water and in all seriousness our clothes our cleaner!!! The only regret we have is we should have bought one years ago!!!!! LG makes great products and I’m glad we finally got one!!!!