LG's sphere-ice party trick turns into a recurring flood hazard: the Craft Ice tray freezes but won't dump, the motor hums uselessly, water spills onto your floor, and you're reaching for a hair dryer at midnight. A class action lawsuit calls the mechanism fundamentally defective, and compressor failures within four years pile on the misery. The French door layout is roomy and the InstaView glass is genuinely useful, but the feature that commands the premium is the one that breaks. Buy a standard LG French door without Craft Ice, or choose a brand with a track record that doesn't require a mop.
A refrigerator with a 21-inch touchscreen and internal cameras you can check from your phone, built on a platform that fails with metronomic regularity. The ice maker quits every few months to two years, needing motherboard and unit replacements; the defrost system clogs with ice and kills cooling in the fridge section; the compressor seizes around year five, triggering a sealed-system repair that costs more than the fridge is worth. Five warranty visits before replacement, repair bills of $300 to $600 per incident once coverage expires, and parts backordered for weeks. The smart features are genuinely useful, the French door layout is spacious, but you are buying a recurring $500 repair subscription with a side of spoiled groceries. Walk away.