I am not aware of many devices that use swappable 18650's either. Off the top of my head the only ones i'm aware of are vape devices.

I refuse to buy cordless powertools. I know it's not exactly the same as built-in batteries, but In their short existence, I have already seen proprietary rechargeable batteries become discontinued (My mom wanted to get an extra battery for a handheld vacuum, couldn't find the battery by itself, so bought what she thought was the same model; nope, they changed the battery design, even though the rest of the new vacuum was the same as the old one)

Mr. Submarine i'm assuming.

In a past life I watched people do this with lumber. A con as old as big box stores return desks.

The passing resemblance to cointelpro ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO ) had me suspicious and it still didn't click for me until then either.

That article certainly confirms all of my suspicions about the kind of (crappy, only in it for himself) person stevie is.

They wouldn't be posting propaganda notices on new reddit's homepage

I want to know more about this, i haven't heard of this yet.