The standard crank drill is clearly the alternative [1]. Most home users should not purchase an electric drill IMO. They dont need it. It will likely never drill more than a few dozen holes.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Frylr-Speedy-Powerful-Manual-1-5MM-10...
Those are useful for everything from assembling IKEA furniture to taking apart a car. The drilling function is secondary or tertiary.
But sure, if you mean a giant corded impact drill used to drill into concrete almost nobody needs that.
I had to rent one once to put a conduit through a concrete block wall reinforced with concrete fill and rebar. Not fun.
Tons of people need that - how else do you hang pictures on stone walls? And they are not so giant - they are the same size as regular drills.
And most homes are wood stud and drywall, where you don't even really need a hammer drill or the impact bit of an impact driver.
I hang pictures on walls with a kit gun and fast drying kit usually.
You can buy kit (or glue) that could easily hold your bodyweight if applied to an area the size of your palm.
Of courses you're gluing it to the paint, but that's usually strongly bonded.
I'd drill into brick to put a structural anchor in, but not to hang a picture.
And that one in particular hates its user specifically; keyless chucks are way better, too, for novices because of the likelihood that that chuck key is going to get lost in a move or the like. They also aren't that expensive--the aforementioned Black and Decker corded drill has one.
In all seriousness though, an eggbeater drill will last forever. Mine are probably 70 years old or older. Ditto my brace. Good luck finding batteries for any electric cordless drill in 20 years, never mind a cheap one.
You can also find third-party adapters to convert between basically any two battery platforms.
Even if the existing 18V/20V-max format doesn't survive another 20 years--an assertion I don't really expect to be true, see for example DeWalt's in-progress switch to stacked cells without any tool deprecation--the world will not be without 18650 cells in twenty years. And you can buy a corded drill if you really want to.
I own a bit and brace and to me it's useful for exactly one thing: compound angles during chairmaking. Literally everything else, from low-and-slow picture-framing tasks to boring out Euro hinge holes, is faster, more accurate, and (for me) more enjoyably done with a tool fit for purpose and with modern affordances--a cordless hand drill and drill press, respectively.