Toggles Considered Harmful

I just read this post from Marcin Wichary's Unsung, where he points out a peculiar macOS dialog box that shows boolean toggles in four different shades of grey: Marcin offers some improvements, but the actual problem is fundamental to macOS: these types of toggles are bad UI controls and should simply not exist. I think toggles originated on iOS, where they replaced checkboxes. I suspect the…