I think the same as you... It is a big mess... No need to disagree with me on this... 😉
And i want a digital switch for polarity in the digital domain too...
That‘s why having a polarity switch in the digital domain is so highly desirable.
On this one I have to unfortunately disagree with you both. In my experience somewhere around half of all recordings are polarity inverted. While that means, that it doesn‘t matter which way you connect your speakers, the actual playback will be out of polarity about half of the time.