i think any "new to you" configuration will take getting used to. I hate the side by side
because you can't get wide things in.
Our kids bought a top of the line French door and the pull out drawer, thought they would love it and HATED it.
I had a big bottom drawer in a regular fridge and loved it. Much more that a top freezer. But it was a regular door, not a French door.
Hotpoint is no longer an independent company, as most aren't.
Hotpoint) is an American and European brand of domestic appliances. Ownership of the brand is split between the American company Whirlpool, which has European rights, and Chinese company Haier, which has North American rights since its purchase of GE Appliances
KitchenAid refrigerators is owned by someone else--maybe Whirlpool! BUT they never did make refrigerators and it was only their brand name that was bought.