This is the dryer you buy when you can't vent, not when you want the best dryer. The heat pump tech saves energy and spares your clothes from high heat, but you'll wait two to three hours per load instead of 45 minutes, and the 4.0 cubic foot drum means doing laundry becomes an all-day affair for a family. The filter and condenser need regular cleaning or performance tanks, and Bosch's thin service network turns a breakdown into a weeks-long ordeal. If venting is genuinely impossible and you live alone or with one other person, the trade makes sense. If you can run a duct, buy a conventional dryer and get your evenings back.
A roomy 7.4 cu ft dryer with AI sensors, steam cycles, and smart-home hooks that one owner called the best they'd owned for quiet operation and capacity. The filter assembly feels cheap, and LG dryers broadly have scattered control-board failures (one viral post described a unit that ran nonstop for four weeks when the relay stuck) plus rhythmic clicking noises some trace to drum design. If you draw a good unit, you'll likely get years of quiet, spacious service; if you don't, you're stuck in LG's slow warranty queue with no data proving this model dodges the category's quality-control lottery.