Here's what that gets you.
One. Anyone can keep it running.
Your kid takes it to camp, your dad borrows it to look under the sink, it sits in the car boot for a year. Two AA go in and it works. Nobody has to remember a cable.
Two. You still get rechargeable if you want it.
It takes our NH2400 cells, which are USB-C rechargeable AA, 2400mAh, four to a pack. Rechargeable when you've planned ahead, alkaline off a shelf when you haven't, and it's the same light either way.
Three. It gives up almost nothing to do that.
600 lumens, three shades of white from warm to cool, plus red, green and blue. The warm setting reads CRI 98, so colours look true instead of washed out. IP68 down to two metres, 90 hours on the low setting, and 107g with the batteries in.
