I, on the other hand "love" NiCD/NiMH and use the $#|+te out of them.
BUT, then at one time I had a large stock of them and know how to use their high discharge abilities.
I just recycled my original 14Vdc 20Ah NiCD brick, that was the first of many connected to the Alky cooker. There's a pic on here somewhere of it and it's little brother.
Knowing the past issues, I use them to take the brunt of the workload while using the FLAs as the gate keeper of electrons.
NiCD/NiMH love to be used , so I do just that. Not ever had an issue with memory effect since I drain them to 80-85% DOD on a regular basis.
YMMV