Kitchen Aid quality did go down for a while but seems to be back up to standard again now. Love my artisan, have used them as work horses in a very busy bakery too and they were great, plus they have really good post sales services so any problems and they’ll fix or replace without argument, often for free. Kenwood used to be great but quality control currently not so good as they try to compete for a price, attachments tend to break more easily, plus they are really noisy in my experience. Kitchen Aid costs more, but really worth it.
Kasserina Cakes, Dorset