If there’s anything people hate more than being locked into a printer manufacturer’s replacement cartridges, it’s proprietary batteries. Cordless power tools are the obvious example in this space, but there are other devices that insist on crappy battery packs that are expensive to replace when they eventually die.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2023/11/21/lipo-replacement-keeps-portable-scanner-in-the-action/