I machine dry all of my baby quilts because I know that is what the mother is going to do. I also tell them to machine wash on cool or cold and dry in a low dryer. So far all my quilts have lasted.
My larger quilts I do mostly the same thing, but I will usually take them out and hang them over a drying rack (one of the wooden fold up type) but that is because I get tired of taking it out and re-positioning it in the dryer. But I start in the dryer to remove a lot of the weight from the water.