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I find they are all dumb. I spend more time helping the stupid machine get unstuck from under the couch, pulling random crap that gets stuck from its brushes. I basically needed to follow it around the house which defeated the purpose of automatic. It never gets used as it's faster to do it myself. AND the bigger vac is quieter than the dumb thing.
This has been my experience too. I bought a new model from LG last year, thinking the technology would have evolved enough by now to be useful. Instead it consistently gets itself stuck in the stupidest places and re-cleans the same spots repeatedly whilst completely ignoring others. In the accompanying app I can see a map of what it thinks the room looks like and it's always wrong because the vacuum has this habit of continuing to drive into walls and recording it as forward movement in an open space instead of a wall, which completely skews the dimensions.
we have an ol' 880 that does the rounds every other day - it's very very good for keeping on top of the dross. Doesn't replace the big vacuum, but it does cut down on the number of times we have to vacuum per week, keeps the walkways clear and eats all the cat fur. Ours is brushless though, I've tried a brushed version, it's a piece of shit that chokes.