When I was growing up, we had a high end dishwasher - like 2001 through 2007. Our dishwasher worked great for a while, and then it just sucked. It was because I

When I was growing up, we had a high end dishwasher - like 2001 through 2007. Our dishwasher worked great for a while, and then it just sucked. It was because I didn't clean the filter and it was just throwing crap all over the place every cycle. When I eventually got a dishwasher when I was older, it was a real crap one in like 2015. I kept the filter cleaned, and it did a great job. Same in my current place. The wash time is longer, that is true. I think most people just never clean the filter. They use the dishwasher to solve the problem, they don't think about cleaning the thing thats cleaning their stuff. People also basically never clean their ovens, so why would we expect them to clean the dishwasher? I'd wager this is a huge part of peoples deteriorating dish washer quality.