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I installed a mini-split system in my house, each individual unit has a couple of safety switches that need to pressed in in order to operate and make sure you still count to ten after sticking your grubby little fingers up its fan. Some of the units work as intended, others, a Christmas tree of error codes and mystery breaks loose if you even think about touching those switches funny. And every single one has to be set to a random degree beyond what you actually want before the thing even tries to turn on. LG deserves suffer slowly in the fires of Mordor for all eternity for the atrocity they have created.
I'm a programmer and I still try to avoid appliances with a computer in them. It's impossible to avoid every sort of computer unless you buy vintage stuff, but something like a microwave with a digital timer is still OK. However, something with wifi or a display showing more than the basic seven-symbol characters is out.
The old stuff is often not just less annoying but works better. For example, my old washer/dryer each took about 20 minutes for a standard cycle. My friend's fancy new ones take an hour. Dishwashers have the same issue. I expect that the modern ones use less water and electricity, but I don't think the savings would be worth the inconvenience even if they used none at all.
Newer dishwashers cycle the same water through repeatedly during the wash cycle, only bringing in fresh a few times during the process. Old ones from before they were concerned about water efficiency would just pull in fresh water and drain out dirty water instead of cycling the same water through repeatedly during each phase of the process.
Because they only run clean water it takes less runtime on the older dishwashers but they're also constantly pulling in fresh water. It's also why newer dishwashers require more cleaning out filters - they don't just drain to the drain, so they need to care that the water draining won't gum up the sprayers and such because it's going to go back through. The point is that they use much less total water to get the job done.