Yes, it is totally ridiculous....
These washers are actually designed to use 'soak time', SUPPOSEDLY to save water and energy.
There seems to be no actual objective to get laundry actually clean, in a reasonable amount of time.
What ingenious (
male) so-called engineers came up with this.
My LG has a quick wash that can be done on 30 min.
but, then I have to run an additional rinse and spin, and add the softener.
As, there is absolutely NO way that the machine actually cleans the laundry, and rinses out the detergent, on that cycle.
So, yeah, in the end, a load of laundry can easily take an hour, or even more.