I don't have your unit. I have a KA with gas on glass in white. I have a couple of thoughts. It is generally easy to clean. However since you are comparing it with stainless, I assume you mean a similar flat top burner layout that should also be easy to clean. It has held up ok for 5 years. I have used a heavy canner on the large burner. The reflected high heat from this burner has caused some discoloration. I can imagine that this might not happen with stainless, but I have never had stainless.

Since it looks so clean, the small ring of crud that forms at the burner/surface interface is obvious enough to require occasional removal of burner heads. This requires a torex head screwdriver for the KA. And speaking of KA/Whirlpool, the morons didn't use stainless screws and I am going to have to drill one pair out because they are rusted on.

I can imagine a breakage scenario. I store cast iron griddles above my double wall ovens and I managed to drop one 3 feet onto my open oven door. Fortunately it only put a nice dent into the inner door frame rather than smashing through the glass window. My burners are on an island so I shouldn't be able to duplicate that screw up over the cook top. A range with a hood would probably be similarly protected from that maneuver.