I avoid fancypants appliances like the plague. Anything with lots of buttons and LEDs, or a little screen. A dryer, in particular, is a very simple thing and most companies ruin it with extra bells and whistles.
My gas dryer, a GE/Whirlpool basic model with knobs and a buzzer selector button, has worked great now for about 13 years. It's literally the most basic we could buy. We may have had to order it. I think the salesman at the store hated us.