I'm another one that loves my front loader, Siemens brand. After owning a front loader for a while I do know what to shop for next time, as far as a soak cycle and a rinse only cycle. My machine has neither of these and I would like to have them. My sister bought a top loader recently and really doesn't like it. I think people (I may be wrong) that like top loaders are frustrated because the machine doesn't work like their old top loaders. Now, my daughter has a top loader that she loves, but, this was her first machine in her first home no real history with machines other than Mom's and I didn't get the front loader until after she had left home. New technology can sometimes be very frustrating, newer isn't necessarily better.