We just bought a standalone GE ice machine. It's a pain to clean but I'm never taking the 2ft flathead screwdriver to the refrigerator ever again.
It had a control knob burn out and it was $50 or so to get a new one, one of the front loaders had a control board fail and it was $450 for a whole new front panel, which of course means nope.
A similar but later top loader that I had died almost the same way, but required an entire control board replacement similar to the front loader; too expensive to bother with.
(Now an enterprising person could likely have repaired the control board itself, but that's beyond my "remove and swap" competencies.)
Meanwhile I know a PCB and a few boring ICs and resistors actually cost like $30 max so I know that we are being scammed.