Ebac washing machines – any thoughts on them

Before we start I have only seen 1 model and that was in a Youtube video. But these are my thoughts from what I saw:
” I did read somewhere that it had a split tub so bearing can be swapped – apparently that is a rarity nowadays so I can only assume if they design this in it means they expect either the machines to last a while and be worth repairing years down the line or the bearings to fail ” Correct. Other than some upper market Bosch / Siemens and Neff, Miele, Gorenje ( now a Chinese owned company ) , Vestel Turkish, Chinese and Korean machines. Everything else our there, based on my own experience, will have a sealed tank so that will be Beko, Hoover, Candy, Indesit, Hotpoint. Now the trouble is and the question you will need to ask Ebac is to find out the cost of spare parts at todays prices then add 40{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} ( or 80{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} if we remain in Europe ) for 7 years time. It is not much use, other than you having that option, in being able to change the bearings if say the drum spider and bearing kit is a major inflated price as yet unknown. To elaborate: I know of a Neff washer dryer ( now scrapped ) that spat out its bearings at only 3.5 years, it was repaired having to have a new drum and rear half tank with prefitted bearings/oil seal kit. The drum was £230 and the rear half tank was £234 =£464 = labour!! This machine was a citrus special and I suggested that the customer moan, groan, at their retailer / Neff but she was not having any of it so the parts were ordered, job done, fast forward 4 years and the bearings fail again. Total junk, You do NOT necessarily get what you pay for in this game! It would have been much better to have 1) ditch the washer dryer idea 2) bought an Indesit washing machine instead ( her old machine was an Indesit lasted 9 years with 3 cheapish repairs along the way ): cheaper machine, now with 10 year free parts. Despite having a sealed tank an Indesit tank complete with new heater thrown in can be bought for 120 quid or less.
I noticed that the Ebac I watched appears to have a circulating pump, if I am right, this is not a good idea unless you have a soft water supply as the circulating system will block-up which could cause several problems that may not be covered by the warranty.
Also there is no 50 degrees which being useful has disappeared from most machines but not the new Indesits!
The inverter motor seems ok but like all inverter motors it is reliant on the PCB, no drum action with an inverter machine usually means motor ok but very expensive pcb failure ( as a sweeping generalization ).

“we dont want to get something cheap and then ship it off to landfil/recycle in 2 years as that seems immensely wasteful to us” Agreed! But I do not know of any crystal ball that works as our Neff owner discovered. I have worked on the cheapest Vestel 180 quid made machines tjhat have gone wtong once in 7 years!!
This is the appliance trade……nothing makes sense!

Think the Ebac looks well made and based on very limited info available should be reliable on the other hand there are loads of other machines out there perhaps just as good but cheaper to buy. Think the hot and cold fill models is a good idea BUT info not available + is this a mixed fill aka old Hotpoints or is hot fill used only on one programme????. I would be wary of the Hisense owned Gorenje, Knowing the Chinese spares can disappear / go obsolete at any time.