Yeah it's amazing. I got a 6qt KitchenAid mixer on sale on Black Friday a few years ago & hated the accessories it came with. The dough hook & flat beater were awful, they oxidized or something & made my hands & batter gray every time I used them because it was like the metal was rubbing off (iirc they weren't supposed to go in the dishwasher or something & needed to be scrubbed down with powder, but screw that, I need convenience! haha. edit: found a post explaining it: "Hi, the dough hooks and other beaters are made from cast aluminium; the problem with aluminium is that dishwasher detergents, which are caustic (alkali), react with the aluminium to form the grey oxide that rubs off the surface - once you have dishwashed them, they are irretreivable - so as has been said, toss it out!"). And the wire whisk got bent out of shape within a week. I ended up replacing all of them over the years:

1. White-coated dough hook: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H3YTWK/
2. SideSwipe beater: (SO GOOD!! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00654X73W/
3. 11-wire whip: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PJ6XGQ/

I feel like KitchenAid has really cheaped out on their newer models. This was the first stand mixer I ever owned personally & other than the fact that it still works, it's been all kinds of weird:

1. It wobbles a lot. I thought that by investing in the larger 6qt, it'd be a more steady, heavy model, especially with all the metal, but nope! Feels like a cheap toy built in China when it's running.
2. The top plastic protector/chute thingy broke really quickly. I need to get another one because sometimes it flings ingredients out & that would catch it, plus it'd be convenient to have the chute part again for loading ingredients.
3. I made a mistake by getting the white color (it was the cheapest color on sale lol). It stains like nobody's business and just looks dirty. I've tried so many cleaning solutions (even stuff with bleach!) and it just looks bad. I thought about painting it or maybe getting some stickers, but eh, it's just a mixer lol.
4. It uses this awful clip system to hold the bowl in place; I can't believe how cheap of a solution they put into a mixer that retails for over three hundred dollars. The mixing bowl has a left & a right bracket to hold it on the lift, and then a kind button-clip system to snap the back in. That broke SUPEr fast. KitchenAid provided a replacement for free, but it took three separate orders to actually get it delivered, so my mixer was down for nearly 4 months. Also, like an idiot, I still tried to use it by holding the bowl down manually, and ended up breaking my first SideSwipe...the bowl was at just enough of an angle that it caused too much pressure from the spinning that it shattered that attachment (but the SideSwipe was good enough of a tool that I ordered another one as soon as my bowl clip actually arrived!).

On the flip side, the motor hasn't failed me yet, so it's still operational, and now that I have a clip in there, the bowl stays in place properly, and with the new attachments (white-coated dough hook, SideSwipe, and 11-wire whip), it's just a super, super useful tool in my kitchen. The SideSwipe is definitely my #1 attachment because it pushes the batter down & scrapes the sides and does a really good job on the bottom of the bowl too. It can be a bit of a bear to clean, but I replaced my kitchen faucet with a switchable pull-out sprayer nozzle, so I just get the water nice & hot and spray it clean immediately after using it so that nothing cakes on (otherwise you're gonna have to soak it & scrub all of the ridges, which is a huge pain!). But it's silicone or whatever, so it just hoses off right after using it really quickly, so it's clean in under a minute!

Anyway, I definitely recommend one if you have a KitchenAid stand mixer. Wish I had known about them sooner as well! btw, if you like the idea of the SideSwipe, you should check this puppy out:

https://www.amazon.com/Creuset-America-Revolution-Bi-Material-Cerise/dp/B00N9SDI40/

Most expensive spoon I've ever bought, and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands lol. Same idea as a wooden spoon, except the black part is made out of glass-filled nylon & the wipe is silicone, like a spatula. It's kind of like a high-quality spork for the cooking world - you can stir & spoon, but also scrape with it. It's absolutely incredible things like pouring say brownie batter from the bowl into the pan, because the spoon part lets you quickly get the bulk of the batter out & then the tip lets you cleanly spatula-off the rest of it, all in one tool! This is one of the few tools that I use every single day. Also great for doing anything on the stovetop as well. Good tools make such a difference in working in the kitchen & in incentivizing me to cook at home instead of just grabbing take-out, haha.