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Another vote for Bosch.
BTW, you know you're old when you get excited about dishwasher features. I accept I'm old now.
If you can get a higher end 800 series, it has two really cool features: Crystal Dry and Eco mode
You know those silica desiccant pouches that get shipped in everything from our electronics to our beef jerky? Just by being exposed to air, the crystals absorb water. You can even reuse the crystals if you heat them and the water evaporates out. The Bosch 800 series has a large container of these type of crystals (Zeolite) in the back of the unit.
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During the heating step, the container is opened allowing the hot moisture to escape. The container then closes, and the wet washing cycle begins. After the dishes are all clean, the container opens again, and the hot wet air inside the dishwasher is pushed through the desiccant container. Because its a closed system, all the water in the air and on the dishes is absorbed by the desiccant and they are bone dry ready to be put away! The desiccant lasts decades so its not like a wearable part.
This feature used to be only available on the high end Thermador Sapphire dishwashers costing a minimum of $2000. A few years ago Bosch allowed this feature in their high end models, the 800 series.
Another feature the 800 series has is "Eco mode", which saves a lot of water and energy at the cost of a longer dishwasher cycle. Instead of using a 6 gallons of water and a huge amount of electricity to heat the water super hot (for most effective quick washing), it uses only 2.4 gallons of water and half the electricity not heating the water as much, but using that water for much longer cleaning to get the same cleaning in the end. A Eco cycle runs for about 2 hours (which the unit is crazy quiet too). The run time doesn't bother me a bit because I usually start or schedule the dishwasher to run when I'm not in the kitchen anyway. Also yes, you can run Eco mode and have it finish with Crystal Dry.
I echo this.
I went with a lower tier Bosch simply because it had a built-in water softener and that was my main priority. On hindsight I may have jumped for the 800 series.
The 3rd utensil tray becomes way more usable with the 800, and your stuff actually dries unlike in my model.
I will say I thought my old whirlpool that came with this house was well designed (more capacity and utensil tray being out of the way on the door was nice).
Crystal Dry is the bomb.
Plastic comes out dry. 'Nuff said.