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Meh, fuck brand loyalty. Keep an eye out for used tools. If it's tough enough to make it to round 2, its demonstrated some selection bias. For some stuff you just need to weigh how much you're going to use it to decide how much you want to spend. If you're using it enough to be frustrated with it every time you take it out, time to upgrade that one.
It's the batteries that keep you in their ecosystems, they're expensive as hell.
Just use corded except for the hand drill.
I'm an electrician, and cordless tools are ten times easier to manage on a jobsite. There are also plenty of times like where I'm doing a service panel upgrade, corded tools aren't even an option when there's no site power, and I'm not lugging a generator around.
At the end of the day, cordless tools just make the entire day easier. The battery situation is annoying, but I'll gladly pay the price for the convenience, especially when time and efficiency gets me paid quicker and home sooner. All those little efficiencies add up over the course of a day.
the battery is the problem, I don't know why UE is so focused on a charging cable and seems to completely ignore this issue.