I don't understand the appeal of dishwashers.
I would respectfully suggest that this is because (for all domestic intents and purposes) you live on your own. As part of a family of four, I would not want to live without a dishwasher!
(I already washed plenty of dishes as a child/ teen/ uni-student/ backpacker, and am very happy that I don't need to do it -- so much -- anymore!)
There are a bunch of things you can't put in the dishwasher, and you have to pre-wash everything anyways before you put them in. It takes so much effort and coordination to "save time" that you end up saving nothing. You could have just cleaned the darned things immediately.
It really doesn't take that much time, though.
I do most of the after-meal cleanup in our house, including loading the dishwasher: plates, cups, robust glassware, cutlery, utensils mixing-bowls, occasionally saucepan-lids and rarely saucepans. I know where everything fits most neatly, so have a (kinda) system to use the space most efficiently. It usually takes ~2 days to fill it completely, and then we run it (unless we're about to go away for >1 day+night, in which case it will be run regardless of fullness!).
Hand-washing the few remaining items takes maybe 5-10 minutes: delicate glassware, all wooden items, our good kitchen-knives and pans. Unless the dishwasher is going to be run that evening, plastic lunch-boxes/drinks-bottles which will be needed the next morning are also handwashed.
Regardless of whether any item is going to be dishwashed or hand-washed, large food-scraps are scraped directly into the compost-bin, smaller stuff gets rinsed into the sink (to be sieved out and dumped into the bin later). I generally only do a
thorough pre-rinse on plates/ bowls that still have lots of semi-liquid/ fatty/ oily food-residue (e.g. ketchup, mayo, yoghurt) adhering to them.
