They really do not need to do anything to ruin the effectiveness of today’s washers. They are already ineffective eyesoars.
I kept my 1991 model washer up for over 20 years because IT was the old style, and it was TRULY EFFECTIVE at washing clothes.
When it finally gave up the ghost, I actually moved back in time and got two large, galvenized buckets, several very sturdy toilet plungers (only for use for clothes - the bathroom has its own plunger!), and a bucket/wringer combo like those used by building custodians.
Then, I got some clothes line for outside drying and a couple of wooden racks for inside drying.
On good weather days, I go outside and wash clothes the way my grandma did, then hang them to dry.
We also changed the way we wear clothes at the same time.
No longer do we wear something one time, then throw it into the laundry hamper even if it is perfectly clean. We usually wear an outfit several times before washing it, unless we spill something on it or whatever.
One other adjustment that I, personally made (I did not ask this of my wife): I now have “grubby clothes,’ that is, clothes I only wear on our property, while I am doing dirty chores like digging in the garden, changing the oil in the pick up, or cleaning the chicken coop.
I NEVER wash my dedicated grubby clothes!
I put them on right before I set out to do the dirty chores. I do the dirty chore, adding more dirt or grime onto the already dirty clothes. Then, when the dirty chores are finished, I take the grubbies off in the utility room and hang them on their own dedicated peg, and put clean, presentable clothes on. The utility room is on the outside ofthe house, and my wife seldom goes in there, so she never sees or smells my grubby clothes. When the shirt or jeans get so dirty that they can stand up on their own, then I just throw them away. Literally. And pick another old shirt or cheap pair of old pants to serve as my grubby clothes.
I can tolerate alot of dirt on my grubbies. I only have to throw out old grubby clothes twice, or maybe three times a year.
But that did not begin with Biden’s war on appliances.
They ruined the domestic washer years ago.