We had a 15 year old plain white LG front loader that was very good. Wife was tired of boring white and liked the color and style of this. We have had this no about 4 months with it's companion gas dryer and while this machine looks good it is not as good as the machine it replaced. All the was cycles take much longer than the old machine. The drum does not spin as fast as old machine so items come out more wet than old machine, thus the dryer needs to work longer and harder. The cycles make no sense, where is a towel cycle to match the towel cycle on the dryer. The AI is a joke and gimmick. Great looking machine, but LG clearly cut functionality for a price point.