New dishwasher time

I looked all over the interior of my dishwasher and could not see any way to "clean the filter" (This is regularly recommended, and every year or so I'd look, and not be able to figure it out, and shrug, and give up).

But anyway: it's not FILLING, which tells me either (a) one of the water lines is plugged or (b) the pump is broken, and it's not that the out-go is bad.

(But yeah, I hear echoes of my mother telling me to 'scrape and rinse every dish before you put it in' and frankly, then, why not just handwash the darn things? I admit I got pretty lax at times with scraping but the dishwasher seemed to handle it).

I was feeling bad because the dishwasher seemed not that old (I got it just under 11 years ago)  and I thought "You were a slob about your dishes and you killed it!" but this post on a repair forum suggests that 12 years is about as long as you can hope for one to keep working, so....

Also it claims Whirlpool has the fewest service calls, so maybe I just replace it with another one as close to the existing model as I can (this HAS been a pretty good dishwasher).

Right now, though, too busy. I do have to get the plumbers out to flush my hot water heater at some point and I am toying with the idea of asking them that if I buy the dishwasher, could they install it. (Lowe's has installers though) and sort of kill two birds with one stone? I don't know. but for now I am going to handwash dishes until I have a little more time.

Not that handwashing is so awful, and it is kind of nice to not worry about "oh, hey, do I have enough spoons left?" because when you wash dishes after every meal you know that of course you do. Oh, it'll get old and when I want to do some kind of "big" cooking it will bother me (I may have to change my Easter dinner plans...was going to do lamb loaf but that takes an awful lot of bowls and pots and pans). But for now, it's OK.