[dubrocks]

The problem is the software. macOS could remind you to charge the night before, but it always ends up needing charging in the morning as you're ready to start working. One engineer could fix the problem in under an hour if anyone at Apple cared about user xperience.

[acdha]

I’ve used one of those for years and there’s never been any impact on the user experience. Every few months, the low battery warning pops up. At that point, it will still work for hours and it only takes a few minutes to charge so even if it popped up first thing in the morning I’d plug it in the next time I got coffee, went to a meeting, walked the dog, etc.

[RunSet]

Designing the mouse so it is useless while the charging cable is connected means that if the battery no longer takes a charge the mouse becomes e-waste.

[Dylan16807]

Does that happen often? Especially compared to the switches?

If any other component fails the mouse becomes e-waste so that's not exactly novel.

And 50% of the original long lasting battery capacity would be fine here.