Reliance on Li Ion batteries in Oly Pen series

Lights wrote:

I've had original batteries fail, back to 2003. I've usually replaced them with aftermarket very cheap batteries and never had one out of maybe 20 I've purchased, ever swell, catch on fire, explode or do anything weird. Yeah they may be of slightly less output or take a few shots less per charge than the originals.but they've worked. I'm not saying that cheap aftermarket batteries can't have problems, maybe luck has something to do with things. If I have a battery that swells, or I can't get a replacement...then it gives me an excuse to get a new camera However I've thought about this and you do make a point now that the improvements in cameras seem more incremental and people may be hanging on to them longer..outlasting the batteries (even 3rd party) that they need to function.

What really made me think about it was I ran across this guy who was trying to sell his film camera he told me he'd used for 35 years.  It made me wonder if film cameras ever had "shutter actuation limits" or any of these other things we worry about, like Li Ion batteries, that can make our digital cameras fail.  I never actually had the pleasure of owning an SLR- my first complex camera was a Nikon Coolpix 990 back in 2000 (same year I joined this forum.)  It used 4 AA's but it was the last one in that line to do so. I had owned a film camera before that but it was a point and shoot.