In most air flow dryers, the evaporation of water from the fabrics keeps the fabrics themselves cooler than the temperature of the incoming air while they are damp. The electronic dry control HOH dryers generally err on the side of less dry rather than over dry. That is the reason for the Permanent press setting; it ran the dryer after the fabrics were sensed to be dry to heat them to 160F to complete the dewrinkling process. What you have to remember is that the HOH dryers were designed to go with the capacity of the small tub Maytag washers (or Frigidaire solid tub machines). Larger loads can pose problems in the HOH dryer, mostly wrinkling, but scorching if you pack it too full. Very small loads do not dry efficiently because they tend of stay out of the air stream which enters around the door opening and is pulled to the center. Small loads tend to follow the outside of the drum and stay outside of the airflow. Whirlpool's 29 inch dryers do a much better job of keeping small loads in the air flow.  Ironically, the dryers that Maytag produced before the HOH design had much larger drums. If you look at a HOH from the back, you will see the belt and speed-reducing pulley system that WP and others used in the early 50s, but which was replaced by newer drum drive systems by the 1960s. Maytag did not see fit to do that until the 1980s and stuck with a small capacity dryer even longer than they stuck with a small capacity washer.

When I was working in a department store, a lady came in with a very soft pile nylon bath rug and claimed that it was defective because it had not done well in the laundering process. I looked at the pattern of small squares crushed into the pile and looked up at her and said, "You have a Maytag dryer." She looked shocked but admitted that she did and asked how I knew. I pointed out the little squares in the pile, which were sort of heat set in and told her that she had dried this by itself and it had been pulled against the guard over the lint screen and with nothing else to knock it away, the suction had kept it pulled against the grid the whole cycle; she obviously did not have an electronic control machine and the rotating dynamic disc lint filter had a few bugs. A warm wash would remove the grid pattern crushed into the pile, but because the customer was always right at Rich's, we had to offer her a new one. I cautioned her again against drying it by itself in her dryer. It was a beautiful shade of blue so we marked it damaged and I bought it for a pittance and used it for years.  

I believe 06= Halo Of Heat and 08= Stream of Heat, the larger drum with the diagonal back to front air flow.

None of us were saying they were not heavily built machines that ran quietly; they just have certain design flaws that were not taken care of. For example, the felt seals at the front can allow loose coins to drop through and short out the heating elements. To replace the heating element, which is attached to the inside front of the cabinet, the cabinet has to be removed from the dryer base and moved forward enough to allow the tech to be able to crawl into the cabinet to allow the new open coil element to be restrung. Given that vulnerability, Maytag could have replaced  the open coil element with a sealed Calrod-type element that was less vulnerable to shorting out or put a baffle in to deflect coins. The closeness of the heat source to the load also mandated that the heat source be below the average wattage or BTU rating that most other dryers supplied which prolonged drying time. They are not serious flaws and certainly would be overlooked by anyone who reveled in the joy of owning Maytag laundry appliances, until a coin is left in a pocket and it falls through the felt seal and shorts out the heating element.

Both the electric element and the gas flame were located very close to the fabrics in the HOH drum. Maytag was not the only one. If you look, you can often see traces of melted synthetics on the back of GE and 27"Westinghouse dryer drums because the heating element was located behind the drum and if the dryer was overloaded the airflow was compromised and the load at the rear of the drum got too hot and the tightly packed load was smashed against the hot drum so stuff scorched or melted, probably not more than once per user, but it happened.  That is the reason that WP designed the outward bulge in the rear bulkhead just before the heater inlet to help deflect the tumbling load away from the hot inlet grill, but WP changed their dryer design three times while Maytag stuck with the HOH dryer. Even GE, which also had a porcelain drum, changed their dryer design several times over the course of the machine's run. Maytag just convinced themselves and their customers that their dryers were just fine as they were, even when you had to reach into the back of the drum to clean the lint filter. My DE806 is a beautiful dryer, but not the best one I own.

In the 08 series, the heating element was moved into a can below the drum and a duct carried the heated air up to an inlet in the stationary rear bulkhead of the drum

Reply #10 is only speculation on the part of the poster and has nothing to do with Maytag's corporate decisions or policy.