I used to really want an icemaker for convenience, because invariably I’d run into a mostly-empty ice cubes tray when I wanted ice cubes. Or I’d fill the ice cubes tray before it was empty, but then I’d partially-melt the ice cubes there and make them unusable until they refroze.

I didn’t care that much about chilled water, because I can throw ice in it. But the ice cubes were a pain.

I even got a dedicated icemaker at one point, when I wanted softer ice to run a small shaved ice machine.

But…finally I figured out what I needed to do differently. Instead of freezing water in ice cube trays and taking the ice cubes directly out of the tray, just go stick a container in your freezer. Whenever you get ice cubes, if the ice cube tray is full and there’s space, just dump it into the container and refill it. Now you have a big container of ice cubes that’s always full. Just replicates what freezer-integrated ice cube makers do. Haven’t had any issues since. Maybe this is obvious to some people, but it wasn’t to me.

You can get little containers that will fit into the door shelves if you want to stick them there:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ice+cube+container