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There’s profit incentive, but also regulation to make them more efficient. Say they have an undersized motor now, you may have to wash your clothes a few times or do more small loads. This puts more hours on the poor motor and it burns out sooner, causing more waste.

Kind of like those toilets that use 30% less water per flush, but you have to flush them twice to get anything to go down.

This isn’t to say all regulation is bad, but poorly thought out regulation is the worst.