Then you can just go about your life, but there are people who enjoy playing older consoles and batteries where I have to completely open the controller to replace them are a huge pain in my ass compared to the simplicity of having a bunch of rechargeable AA batteries for basically all of my controllers.

Nah the UK is a shithole. One of the only things we've really gotten right recently is internet.

Full fibre 500mbps for me, I pay about £60 a month for it.