Nespresso Aeroccino3 Milk Frother

TLDR: great until it dies This was a gift for my wife for xmas last year and at first it was great! Hot foam worked perfectly (even on the oat milk my wife and I drink). Cold foam was okay, but nothing unexpected given the lack of heat and hippie milk. Here's the important part tho: about a month ago it started performing progressively worse (low foam, lukewarm milk) until eventually it gave up entirely. It would try to start but the spin head would sort of slowly turn a couple of times and then it would give up and flash a red light at me. I understand that wear and tear is a thing, but I would have expected a quality branded item such as this to last more than a year of two uses a day. Surely that's not an unusual amount of use for your average married household! And no, we didn't do a stupid and submerge the thing while cleaning; a brief rinse out of the cup every day and usually a more aggressive sponge clean with soap and the spin head pulled out on the weekends when we weren't running out the door to work. I definitely won't be getting another one. If everything is just built to break anyway then I may as well go off brand and save a few bucks.