No steam use here. On the dryer we quit using the sensor settings and went to timed dry. Seemed like it took twice as long to dry clothes and they didn't always dry. They are just too complicated these days.
Oh, on top loaders you can't fill them up all the way with clothes. Half way up is "full". We learned that the hard way and the tech who came out to replace our motherboard gave us that info which we never got in store.