"Lonely" Maytag Repairman phasing out?

Toward the end of the yahoo post on the phase-out of the "lonely" Maytag repairman ad campaign:

That and there have been a surge of complaints about quality that the company has had to weather in recent years -- they don't exactly jibe with the image of the no-fail washing machine. So sure, times have changed, and so have the appliances.

Different product, different promotion?

Jesse White played the repairman between 1967 and 1988.