And what I forgot to mention, forget about the 4 wheel steer.
Unless that are substantially better built and substantially better designed, they are just a money pit.
There is no great advantage to the average home owner.
In the run there is about a dozen of them that the owners can not sell cause they don't work and can't be fixed because parts are not available.
While none of them are JD's all of the owners seriously regretted buying them.
Similar with 4 WD.
Unless you are mud pluging or pushing a lot of snow the only mowers that are really worth getting the 4 wd option on are the articulated mowers