When my first son was born, I fully intended to use cloth diapers, but my dad entered a contest and won a years' worth of free disposables. At the time, we were living in an apartment and going to the coin-op washing machines meant walking up a steep hill to a separate building about 100 yards away. Walk up to wash, walk up to dry, walk up to retrieve, try to do it during a nap or when hubby was home at night, in snow, in ice, in 100°+ summer heat.... Ugh. Didn't take me long to make that choice, lol.
6.5 years later, my second son had such sensitive skin that any time spent in a wet diaper resulted in diaper rashes so bad, they looked and acted like chemical burns. I can remember my husband having to hold him down while I washed the poo off as gently and quickly as I could, and my poor baby screaming because it was so bad. Omg brings tears to my eyes even now, remembering how he screamed! Switching to disposables in his case was a very easy choice.