Why not? I'll weigh in:

Re: economics:

our two eldest sons, early 30s, careers, married, houses, lifelong savers.

A couple of months ago, one of them asked my thought re something macro. I replied he & his brother: for the first time probably ever, this is Dad advising you spend, not save.

Specifically, any durable good you're pretty sure you're going to need in the nex few years -- new dishasher, new furnace, new (well, gently used) car: I vote for now. I have no idea what the prices of these things are going to be in a couple of years, but I'd bet good money against them being cheaper. Or potentially even easily available.

So: my vote is, buy the dishwasher

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Re: model.

A couple of years back, our 13-15 year old Bosch gave it up after a conservatively estimated 10,000 cycles. We replaced with another Bosch and are happy. It's a high-efficiency which means slower, but big deal. Especially as it gets things really clean and dry, which is the point.

It came with a bunch of fancy settings which we don't need use want, but my sole complaint about this gadget is that most of them are only available via wifi. I don't see any good reason to give my dishwasher/washing machine/ceiling fan/dog bowls access to my home network.

Of the commands available the old-fashioned way (i.e. on the door panel), two that I do use are missing: rinse & hold, and delay start. The latter is particularly helpful when it's August, 105 and smoky outside, we've had the AC on since 10 am, and the last thing I need is the dw blowing hot humid air into the kitchen. Nope, no 2 am start time for this Luddite. (I have plenty more first-world problems if you're interested).

Anyhow, pretty nitpicky, and I'd buy a Bosch again.

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Re: filter. I go on a rigorous cleaning schedule of, hmmm, guess I haven't cleaned the filter in a couple of months. Or six.

It's plugged up on my exactly once, when I was playing chicken with it to see how much debris it could handle. I think it was a bunch of baked-on lasagna noodles that bested the German engineers.

Anyhow, it's easy to do, takes a literal minute to do, and doesn't require a deep-knee bend. (I don't think you'll find a dw that doesn't have the filter on the bottom because, you know, water drains downhill.)

--sutton
hadn't realized he held a multi-hundred word opinion here