> The vast majority of top loaders are in the $500-700 range, top loaders $800-1000. There simply isn't much market for $2000 machines that will last decades.

Those "high end" washing machines will also fail in the same time range that the low end ones will.

There is a market for them, but it will remain unfulfilled because the manufacturers make more money in the short term with the low-reliability ones.