It drives me crazy. It just does not load in a natural/intuitive way for our family.

It functions very well. This is so petty, but it’s the way that the racks load that drives me crazy. We vacation at our friends house every year and they have an Asko and it is my favorite dishwasher to load ever. Our other friends that travel there mention the same thing. I know they’ve had it for at least 20 years at this point and it is still functioning perfectly.

ETA— we thought they had a Miele which is why we bought ours. (We needed a dishwasher stat and ordered online during the pandemic shortage.)

We have a Miele and I wish we would’ve gotten an asko.

Don’t sweat it. Your parents assume you do this, they just don’t want to think about it. Just like you assume they have sex but don’t want to think about it. They probably didn’t hear it—but even if they did it’s not a big deal.