Product review (3 stars): Expensive, suboptimal, but gets the job done
I wanted a good top loader, like they made the old ones from 15+ years ago. And while this is a good machine by today's standards, it's a less-than-dazzling option from all the top loaders I've used.

The stainless steel tub comes with a layer of grease. I wiped it out, then ran 3 cycles on hot+ soap+ vinegar pushing it past "extra large" by holding down the reset load dial. That worked for me.

The tub is disproportionately taller than its width should imply. This means fitting less clothes than you would think with the published capacity. This also means the machine is worse at agitating large loads of clothes because of the top down weight. Even though the written capacity is higher than my last machine, I find the machine can hold what I would call a normal load at max, and I have to do smaller loads to get the clothes really clean.

Because it's a commercial machine, it's cycles are short, but that means less soaking time, therefore less clean. I usually soak my dirtier laundry in the machine for at least 20 min, sometimes more to boost it's cleaning power.

The rinse cycle is adequate because it uses huge amounts of water. But the spin leaves by laundry noticeable damper than all other machines I've tried (even more pronounced on fuller loads). As a result my dryer is no longer adequate to dry my clothes in one cycle.

Also, as you probably know, these washing machines are simple stupid things. The price--for a less than optimal design-- is obscene, regardless of where it's built. But what are you to do when you want a simple, easy to fix, easy to clean machine when the rest of the world apparently doesn't mind wearing moldy sweaty clothes and paying a thousand dollars for a digital machine that will break in 5 years?

I suspect many of the shortcomings of this machine's design can be attributed to it's use and distribution as a commercial or laundromat machine.