Planned obsolescence. THey price the repair parts so high it doesn't make sense to fix it. Appliances are like that a lot. We went through that a couple weeks ago buying kitchen appliances.
I am so sorry, we re-done our kitchen several years ago, I replaced all the appliances with high end stuff.
Within 5 years every damn appliance died within 1 month of each other.
I am talking the refrigerator, cook stove, and microwave.