ALL LEDs gradually lose their brightness. Even when driven at spec, they will degrade. How quickly they degrade is determined by how much heat is produced (how hard you drive them) and how easily that heat is pulled from the die. Think about how often you use your light. Most casual use, especially if you have several lights, will likely only be 10-30 minutes per week. Then consider that when driven nominally at spec and 25C (which doesn't happen in the real world), the half-life (time to half brightness) is around 50k hours. Even when mildly overdriven, the half-life will be in the 5k-20k hours range. Take 5k hours (you're driving it pretty hard) at 30 minutes per week, that's 192 weeks! Quite a few years, and that's taking an extreme of the half-life. In real world use, and considering how well the Amilites are made, I'd say close to 10k-20k hours...so, many many years.