> Something the author didn't comment on, but I think is important, is overall alignment. In the old UI the controls and labels are colocated, and inconsistentl

> Something the author didn't comment on, but I think is important, is overall alignment. In the old UI the controls and labels are colocated, and inconsistently ordered. In the new UI labels and controls are consistently aligned left/right or top/bottom. I think this is the real reason -- it's easier to build a pretty, symmetrical UI with switches because they can exist far away from their associated text. I'm not convinced on the accessibility argument, namely because it's usually trivial to expand the effective click target of a control without making it physically larger on screen.