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Afait reducing the amount of cycles is the best - my reasoning is that every cycle just slightly damages the membrane between anode/cathode.
Also I have heard that for long storage 80% is the best but it's just something I have heard/read.
About 10 years ago, the norm was to, from time to time, drain lithium batteries to minimum and so do a full cycle, this is something my father told me but I actually don't know the reasoning.
Early rechargeable batteries such as nickel-cadmium and nickel-metal-hydride would develop "memory". For example if you made a habit of always recharging the batteries once they hit 50%, the battery would think "I guess they don't need the rest of the capacity, I'll throw it in the trash" and you ended up with a battery with half it's original capacity. So it became good practice to occasionally discharge them completely before recharging. Sort of a 'use it or lose it' scenario. Now lithium batteries do not have this issue but it took people a long time to break the habit.
I believe it's because software managing batteries needs to calibrate voltages to understand how charged a battery is. Fully power cycling allows, for example, your phone to understand what 100, 0 and everything in-between.