In other #home #hardware thoughts, I just had to replace my Panasonic microwave after it developed a front-panel fault which renders it completely unusable and, by all accounts, is de facto unrepairable. (The gist of it is that the power-level setting button becomes stuck "on". It's apparently a quite well-known problem.)
Anyway, it appears that since I last bought a microwave, Panasonic's patents on #inverter power control for microwave ovens have expired, because now multiple brands offer inverter microwave ovens. And that means that AT LONG LAST, I was able to find a microwave (a Toshiba, in this case) that has all three of my most important features — inverter power control, humidity-sensor "smart" cooking and reheating, and an actual, handle to open the door instead of a stupid pushbutton. Why do I hate door pushbuttons? Because inevitably they start sticking after a while, no matter how many times you take the damned oven apart and clean and lubricate the linkage, and then opening the door becomes a two-hands operation. One hand to push the unlatch button, and the other to get a grip on the door, which doesn't have a handle, and pull it open.
Yes, yes, yes, you idiot marketroids, I get it, the flush pushbutton is all sleek and shiny and modern and all that crap. But it doesn't work worth shit. It's awkward at best, and worse, it's unreliable. FORM IS SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW FUNCTION, not throw it out with the bathwater.
Every single microwave oven that has a door-unlatch button and no door handle has failed functional design 101.