Reading other RV forums I see equal complaints about Norcold and Dometic RV fridges and don't blame Reace or Tammy for choosing what many other RV manufacturers install. I would, however, love to see an Escape users poll establishing what percentage of Escapers who have camped in hot weather (definition required) are satisfied with fridge performance. Without exact data it would be of limited use, but if you could determine that a rough fraction of users were or were not satisfied with their fridge performance in hot weather, it could be useful to all in gauging how big the issue is and on which fridges.
Perhaps additional comments could allow for details on how their expectations were not met, and the comments could help to determine if the Escaper was expecting too much (as in comparing to home fridges). I suggest the poll because you don't know if there is a silent majority out there without fridge issues, so a poll might encourage them to respond. A poll could also show the problem to be more widespread than previously thought. On the other hand polls take a lot of effort to produce and to evaluate. What do you think, Jim?
If Dometic and Norcold fridges have similar reputations long term, recent issues must be related to engineering changes or quality control issues. I am willing to bet (will be getting our 21 in May) Reace will be the one who gets Dometic to fix this, if the current changes aren't already sufficient.
Bob K