With everything else equal, I'm offered a longer battery life with no tradeoff, I'll take it!
However, if I have to use arm binaries instead of amd64 binaries, I'm far less interested.
If I also have to use a laptop where I have little room to adjust the OS defaults, to the point of being in a walled garden, I start asking myself if I need it, and when.
> I don't want to have to find a power outlet
I agree, but TBH with anything over 5h, I rarely need to look for one. Maybe it happens once every month?