Which cordless tool battery platform should I buy into?

What the numbers show

Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count

• This comes up 22.8× more often in r/HomeMaintenance than across the site as a whole.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   Staying with corded tools to avoid battery replacement
2. 2
   Buying budget brands like Ryobi or Bauer
3. 3
   Investing in premium professional brands like Milwaukee or DeWalt despite higher cost
4. 4
   Using a mix of both electric and gas tools depending on the specific seasonal task like leaf cleanup
5. 5
   Buying a large surplus of high-capacity spare batteries and fast chargers to swap out on the go

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.