Cheap unless you have to replace the computer board that is.
When we bought a new washing machine a few years ago I tried to get my wife to go with the old fashioned electro-mechanical timer controlled machine.
She would not go for it she had to have the newest, high efficiency computer controlled machine.
About two years later there is a storm came through our area and caused power surge that burned out the machine’s computer board and we end up replacing the machine, again.
An electro-mechanical timer would not have been harmed by a power surge and would have cost about half what the computer controlled machine cost. Maybe it would have used more water and maybe not. I have read reviews about the machine recently that gives me doubts.
The machine also seems to take forever to do a load of cloths compare to the old machine.
Our power surges caused our dishwasher failure. They have also taken out a range and two TVs. I am too cheap to put a surge protector in our main panel.