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I installed a mini-split system in my house, each individual unit has a couple of safety switches that need to pressed in in order to operate and make sure you still count to ten after sticking your grubby little fingers up its fan. Some of the units work as intended, others, a Christmas tree of error codes and mystery breaks loose if you even think about touching those switches funny. And every single one has to be set to a random degree beyond what you actually want before the thing even tries to turn on. LG deserves suffer slowly in the fires of Mordor for all eternity for the atrocity they have created.
I'm a programmer and I still try to avoid appliances with a computer in them. It's impossible to avoid every sort of computer unless you buy vintage stuff, but something like a microwave with a digital timer is still OK. However, something with wifi or a display showing more than the basic seven-symbol characters is out.
The old stuff is often not just less annoying but works better. For example, my old washer/dryer each took about 20 minutes for a standard cycle. My friend's fancy new ones take an hour. Dishwashers have the same issue. I expect that the modern ones use less water and electricity, but I don't think the savings would be worth the inconvenience even if they used none at all.
A lot of the new ones, as you said, take longer because they default to an eco mode and use less resources. Mine at least has a mode that ignores that and just goes all out.
I usually don't use it because it's easier to just plan ahead and I don't really ever need it to finish that fast.
It's also nice that it can tell if something needs more or less washing by checking the water occlusion.