BUT,, the freezer part of the refrigerator was inly 12 X 12. And you could only defrost it after LOTS of trouble.
Now i can get endless ice THROUGH THE DOOR without filling ice trays. And there are No ice trays!!! The water fills without having to do a thing.
I could go on and n .... yes, they did last forever but we added lots of features and made it a two door with separate freezer and NO FROST .... it never freezes over!!!
When I was a kid, our freezers had an ‘auto’ defrost mode.
My mother would call me and tell me that I auto defrost them.