Not an electrician, but an observer of tradespeople at r/electricians. There are definitely bad feelings about these AFCI breakers. The feeling is that the cod

Not an electrician, but an observer of tradespeople at r/electricians. There are definitely bad feelings about these AFCI breakers. The feeling is that the code mandate for AFCI got out front of the reliability of actually-produced AFCI's, and actually-in-use products like blenders that may have small "arcing". This results in expensive call-backs from unhappy customers who are getting nuisance trips.