i don’t even remember my mom’s maytag opening top to bottom like an oven! never have seen that.
I’ve neve had a dryer that DIDN’T open like an oven. EVER. In fact, it used to be a selling point because you can rest your load of clothes on the dryer door while loading and unloading. And my experience extends back through a 55 year marriage and includes my late mother’s several dryers.