technology

They're full of circuit boards that aren't necessary at all whether you get the fancy versions or not. None of the appliances here have touchscreens but the GE fridge for example stopped dispensing water or ice. You could get it to dispense both if you opened the door but pressed the door close sensor button. The warranty service had a guy come and replace two boards over a span of three weeks because of backorders, and the replacement of those boards made it stop dispensing water or ice entirely, no matter what was done to the door button. Guy came out and replaced two different boards, got it to return to the original broken state where it will dispense water and ice if you open the door and press the button. Haven't bothered to follow up for further service because this half-broke situation beats no water and no ice. Oh also the fridge won't work if you buy generic water filters that don't have the GE rfid tag, I had to tape the "plug" rfid tag into the filter housing to make it work with generics.

None of those functions should require logic boards, those are all entirely within the scope of switches and solenoids that would be extremely serviceable.