I love the Brother machines! They sew well and take a lot of abuse. Just as important, they have very thorough and user friendly user manuals/user guides. The manuals don't assume you know anything about sewing and that's a good thing. I've re-learned a few things that I thought I knew how to do correctly because of the user guides.
I don't see myself ever owning a truly "high end" Brother machine as I'm not really interested in all the fanciness that implies, but if that were to change in the next 20 years, I would not hesitate to buy a Brother.