The new fridges DO offer tons more room, brighter LED lighting, and are soooooo much more efficient.
Just with my wife and I with a 20 year old side-by-side, found we couldn't fit full sized dinner plates with left-overs onto the shelves which was a PITA, as well as with that narrow ~15" wide door old food would get pushed to the back and would turn into a Biology experiment. Wasted Food, Poor Storage layout, and an icemachine that didn't work anymore I said enough is enough, we're getting something new.
so we went from this ~25 cu foot:
To THIS:
31 cu foot LG, stainless, tons of LED lighting, huge bottom freezer section, you can access all your food with ease, and I think it only uses ~100 dollars of electricity to run it per year. This doesn't have a standard induction motor compressor, but a magnetic impulse drive that moves the piston. Almost silent in operation, and was only $2500 at Home Depot.
WE LIKE............no...........WE LOVE IT.