I enjoy my Featherweight, but also love my Janome MemoryCraft 9000. Once when having it serviced the guy showed me two machine chassis he had - one solid metal, the other all damaged plastic. He pointed to the metal frame and said, "That's what's inside your machine. It's built to last." We got it in the late 90's, and dh helped me pick it out. Actually, he bought it with money he inherited from his mom, as he wanted me to have a good machine. At the time we watched TV in the same livingroom where I sew. He liked the quiet hum of the Jamome, so he could still hear the TV, and we enjoy being together. It has embroidery cams which I don't use much, but it runs like a charm. My old machine was way noisy and often got temperamental. I don't scorn people who have a different machine, nor do I expect anyone else to think I'm stupid for making the choide I did. We all make the best choices we can.