As far as CR goes have not used them in years.
Maybe they have changed but just never found them very helpful, except to point out what features I should look for in an item.
Today find the web far more helpful. But that is just me. Because if I want a washing machine that can also pluck chickens (maybe using the hot rinse and then the spin?), CR ain't gonna tell me about that. But someone, somewhere, on the web will have defeathered fowl the simple way and will probably be talking about it.
But enough about CR, and I have nothing against the organization.
Lived for many years with gas, then for many more had electric, and now have a Viking. Have never purchased a stove, just used whatever the digs had in place.
Mr Viking takes forever to pre-heat the oven and the gas never gets down low enough to simmer properly. Have to kind of place the pot on the adjacent cold burner and watch it.
But it is great to be able to stir fry in a round bottom wok and when that burner is off, it is cool.
But on electric can always stir fry in a flat bottom wok (not quite the same but one learns to adapt) and just move a pot from a burner.
There are advantages to both methods and I have learned to adapt.
I still have too much to learn about cooking to bother very much about the nuances of stoves. Figure my food will be better if I worry more about how to cook it than what to cook it on.
And as far as CR goes, if they ever take up the chicken plucking conundrum, just may subscribe.