Lots of reasons to use different sorts of batteries.
Lithium is the winner for primary (disposable) batteries in electronics we care about because of
- Discharge characteristics — The old "heavy duty" ones discharge more or less in a diagonal line, so drop voltage immediately. Fine for incandescent flashlights, motor-powered equipment. But many electronics are designed to work with 1.45 - 1.55 v and nothing else, so you may get minutes of use.
- Anyway, Alkalines drop slower, so keep useful voltage for most of their life, but it depends on the device more than the battery.
- Lithiums keep voltage until something like 95% discharged, then drop off the cliff. So, you get pretty much all the milliamps into your device.
- Overall: it's not capacity, it's usable capacity.
- Temperature insensitivity — Lithiums work well over a broad temperature range. But, not infinite. I have had devices die from low power (they said so before shutting down) with fresh lithiums. When warm: worked again for hours and hours. So, cold doesn't destroy the battery, it just saps the ability of the battery to work at that moment. Anyway, cold enough and it won't work, so plan to keep your electronics warm if it gets below freezing.
- Storage time — Lithiums are rated for 10 year shelf life. I have had full power out of 20 year old ones (odd batteries like N cells that only came lithium in the 90s) so they are very, very stable.
- Secondarily, they die, but do not change chemistry in dangerous ways like leak.
+/- as good are rechargeable NiMh cells. I was strongly suggested by someone knowledgeable to only use these in my NODs, as there's something on the PVS14 power management that can fail at over-voltage, and Lithium primaries can do that.
Recognize that only a handful of battery plants exist. Just like I say meh to Surfire batteries because they have no factory, Eneloop also doesn't have a factory. So, they are contracted by someone else, and we have to take their word for quality. At least one of the Amazon Basics rechargeables (the black ones?) are apparently the same as Eneloop, as are a few others. Which? Ugh. Takes research. But I have had good luck with Accuvar and Amazon black ones.