The modern ones definitely don't do that. I'm an unusually clumsy person and my dishwasher chips or breaks at least 20 dishes for every one that I break myself.

You must have a weird dishwasher or you put your dishes in weird positions because I've been using an 8 year old washer with my gf for last 2 years and it has never destroyed anything.

I put everything where its supposed to be. The dishwasher is probably pretty old though. I rent.

I've used several other ones over the last 20+ years and they have all been pretty mediocre in terms of cleaning dishes and not chipping them. Perhaps everywhere I've been has had substandard models. What model is yours?