I’d say your landscaper has an overstock of cacti he/she needs to unload.

Or he/she doesn’t know what he/she is doing.

Or both.

I hate uncovered windows at night too - makes me feel like I'm in a fishbowl.

And I like to walk for exercise in my neighborhood - I often can easily see into people's homes at night. Nobody's ever doing anything scandalous, tho - darn it 😄

Two dishwashers? Crazy.

- You say they may both be used once a week? For that once a week, the dishes can sit /wait through the first load.

- Duplicate appliances pushes up the size of your kitchen. That increases the amount of cabinetry you need, your total cost and the number of steps you take in preparing a meal.

I find it sad that people on here have to “brag” that they only run the dishwasher every other day or twice a week.

You see that as bragging? I'd call it discussion /realism.

It does not sound like you really 'need' the second DW.

I'd argue that no one "needs" a second dishwasher, but many things discussed in detail on this board are far from "needs".

Loss of potential storage space.

In my mind, this is the big deal. When you add a duplicate dishwasher, you're probably going to add in more cabinetry for storage ... cabinets are expensive, counter tops are expensive. And duplicate this and that drives up the size of your kitchen, adding steps to your work each day.

It's hard to beat SIMPLE and well-designed.

For background, we entertain A LOT and having a DW for dishes and another for larger trays would be glorious

I understand having a lot of dishes when you entertain, but I don't see the problem in running one load while another is sitting in the sink waiting.