If you can find ‘em - k.i.s.s.
Get the most manual appliance you can.
I just bought a couple of ten year old used ones, just to get an agitator and simplicity.
We bought a Speed Queen washer last year. Cost quite a bit more than most other washers, but I think it’ll last a while. As you said, we got the model with the least electronic stuff we could find. It’s not completely manual-everything, though.
In keeping with the times I retrofitted the Whirlpool wash-o-matic in our daycare laundry room with a black agitator.