What is so commercial about this washer?

Nothing, it's part of the embellishing/false advertainment game that virtually all corporations play.

Who are they fooling? 

Most of the lazy public that don't do their own research. There's no excuse for this.

What are you doing Maytag?

It's actually Whirlpool, and they're building cheap junk to maximize profits AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!

And thats literally what Whirlpool was after when they bought Maytag. They had to know years in advance most if not everything Maytag wouldn't be kept in production with people solely buying appliances based on fond memories. Then again Whirlpool did spare people from buying Performas, Nortags, and MayQueens so there is some good to doing this.

Whirlpool should have kept the dependable cares in production for their commercial/coin up market. 

People must remember that the mechanism in these was designed for small portable washers in the 90s before being placed in full size machines and then eventually commercial OPL machines. It was never designed to drive a full size tub and agi let alone anything on premises.

You kidding? The Dependable care is a commercial grade design by default. Probably better than modern coin-op Speed Queens which are also pricey but still sell in the commercial market. DD is a residential grade design and the World Wash is portable (apartment) economy grade.

DC machine kept going when overloaded and typically only needed a belt change. Tons of laundry mats with dependable cares have proven it a great deign. 

Ah, I've triggered the Modern/HE/Whirlpool-does-no-wrong crowd. 

DCs lasting 30 years in residential with only minor repairs there after is more normal than not, coupled with DC surviving many years in laundry mats, apartments and OPLs would be ample proof in my world view. To deny this fact would be disingenuous. DDs lasting 30+ years without any repair while certainly not unheard doesn't hold en mass when the DC/DDs ratios are adjusted for.

Now, speaking from opinion, the DC design is the greatest, most beautiful, most practical TL washer ever produced hands down. If the world was with people like myself the DC design would make up at least 90% of all TLs washer across the globe and it would still be produced today across many names including center dial versions. 95% of Kenmore would have been DCs. The DCs design is not dated nor obsolete rather a timeless engineering perfection and will always remain so. Most other washer designs in my view are mere competition. 

To those on here who like to use Maytag's finesse as a short coming- 50Hz pulleys and DA agitator designs would have taken care of that. In fact in my world customers would have the option to choose pulley and agi much the way people could choose what agi they had in a Kenmore. Whirlpool on the other end of the spectrum had to switch to low speed in the Normal wash, but somehow we choose to ignore that Whirlpool also had an over estimate.   

The Maytag dependable care was far too expensive to make

Buyers got what they paid for.

and not that well-suited for commercial use.

The helical platform proved itself in nearly 50 years of commercial use.

I could be wrong here, but IIRC these came out in response to Speed Queen sales increasing.

If people began buying Speed Queen products en mass indefinitely Whirlpool would put the DDs or Dependable Cares back into production.

A dual action Dependable Care would hit the spot right about now.

Great vids, the 50Hz hum is so glorious in the beginning of this vid  <3

Now they are revered because nothing better was built after they were discontinued.

It's a sad indication where we're at currently in toploader-ville.