We bought this for my mother-in-law, and her feedback so far have been that it heats up well, but that cleaning the drip pan under the element coil is a little difficult

The element is screwed to the drip pan, and can be tilted up when the screw is removed to let a small-ish hand use a damp towel clean underneath, but the element doesn't seem to be removable by pulling on it like on modern full-size stoves.

Cleaning may be an issue: the instructions say one side of the heating element lifts for easy cleaning of the drip pan (this is standard and expected on most burners) but for the life of me, I can't get the heating element to lift at all

I like it - it works.

While 6 settings are marked on a round dial handle, in reality they work only either as on (full power) or off (no power)