Your ice-dispenser situation is one of the several reasons why I won’t have one in the house. When we were equipping our new kitchen back in ‘17, the salesman was shocked when I interrupted his spiel to say that the top-selling refrigerator he was pushing us to buy was not a candidate because of this feature. “But everyone wants that!” he protested. Not me; an ice-cube tray doesn’t freeze up or leak, and you can disinfect it with Javex or stick it in the dishwasher.

The refrigerator we bought had to be specially ordered without the ice dispenser. It took weeks to arrive.