This is my review of the Olight Arkfeld Pro, with lots of pretty pictures! The Olight Arkfeld Pro is an evolution of the original Arkfeld and Arkfeld UV. It has a triple emitter design, with 1,300lm white light, UV LED, and green laser. Full review here:
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I don’t think inbuilt batteries and / or proprietary charging should be encouraged 
I still have and use (in house) ancient energizer hardcase 2 x aa led flashlights. I think the newer one (20 years old?) is 4 lumens. I really like them. They’re enough for indoors at night time, tough as nails (tougher than aluminium really), just turn on and off. I’ve worn the text off both of them - they get used more than any other lights.
Olight is a consumer, rather than flashlight enthusiast brand. Thus for the market they aim for (high powered consumer lights ) integrated batteries, and safety features to stop people setting their trousers on fire are a good idea. There is now a lifetime warranty that includes the batteries. Whilst you may have looked after your 20 year light well (and kudos for that), 99% of consumers would have destroyed this light with leaky fully discharged alkalines.
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I got one a few days ago, and I think it will be my EDC for a while. I’m not generally a fan of proprietary batteries, but in this case I think it lets them hit their desired form factor for the light and doesn’t bother me too badly.
My only real gripe with the light is the lack of throw. With the tiny reflector it’s not a surprise, but I don’t know if I’m going to be able to live with it. My minimum throw requirement is that a flashlight has enough throw that I can see what the dogs are doing at my back fence when I let them out at night. It’s just over 100 feet, but the Arkfeld Pro doesn’t quite do it.
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Myself and a few other reviewers have also mentioned the lack of throw. Not sure if throwier optics were possible in that form factor.
Yeah, it looks like an 8-10mm reflector, and there really isn’t any extra room in there. it’s just a trade off of the slim design unfortunately.
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Update on my Arkfeld Pro.
After about a month of carry, I truly hate the clip design. It always wanted to catch on everything, and just the other day it caught on my couch while I was standing up. I don’t have a clip anymore, I have a large Z shaped piece of metal where my clip used to be that renders the light pretty much impossible to carry in it’s current form.
I’ll probably reach out to olight to see if I can buy a new clip for it, but I know I’ll just bend the new one the same way in a month or two. I won’t be carrying it anymore. Less throw than I’m comfortable with and an unreliable clip means it’s just not the light for me.
I guess I’ll relegate it to drawer duty and break it out whenever I want to play with the laser.