I mean I can’t really blame them for being smaller, the USB port is a lot of value added but is also pretty huge.

Robots do bake. Actually, a lot of the food you eat is partly made by machines. It’s how we aren’t all starving right now, and why famines are so much less common. As good as handmade bread is, it couldn’t feed 8 billion people. We have bread loaves in the supermarket made by machines, and we are better off for it.

They make USB rechargeable lithium ion batteries in every common form factor. I use lithium rechargeable AAA batteries in my mouse and they work great. You don’t even need a charger, they are USB-C. Highly recommend.