Voting with your money works. But only when there are good options to vote for.
There are a couple BifL sock makers, but no BifL underwear makers. That’s the problem. If someone made loose-fitting stretchy aramid boxers with a drawstring that lasts 1+ lifetimes, people would pay $100/ea for them.
With both those brands, buy brushless. I've lost count of the times I've had to change brushes on both brands of drill. At least Makita makes it easy to change them and you don't have to split the whole drill to do it.
On the other hand, I've never changed brushes on my 25 year old Ryobi, and it's put in a hundred times as many screws as the other two put together.
I use my Makita drill a significant amount. Right now I'm using it instead of a hand crank on my case trimmer (for reloading ammunition; I'm a moderate volume shooter). I've had it for nearly a decade. Yeah, I've replaced the batteries twice, and now have the higher capacity ones. But the drill is still holding up. The Festool Rotex disc sander I've got is easily the best sander that I've used.