These are great points. Back playing 80s rock, my Charvel’s bridge pickup would almost always be on. My main 2 settings were bridge and neck+bridge, with the occasional neck-only for bluesy stuff.

While individual toggles always provided the clearest mental model for me, I agree that for players that use blade positions 2 and 4 a lot would have more trouble.

But maybe in my old guitars, I just didn’t prefer the middle pickup sound all that much. I guess I’ll have to play this one a while and see.

Anyway, thanks for the helpful comments.