I would join your tirade as this prominant place should not be reserved solely for jollas beta state Ambiance "gimmick".
Ambiances are a great idea if completely fleshed out one day with actual actions AND automatic switching of ambiances based on location, wifi ap or time (see situations app) which would make manual ambiance switching even more pointless and help jolla move it away from top-down swipe? don't know.

Maybe it will be cool if those actions you are trying to achice by having toggles in that place will actually be available by selecting the appropriate ambiance with grouped "toggle functions"?

Like select "sports" ambiance and thus activate bluetooth which is otherwise disabled and start sportstrack app.
Or select "night/sleep" and have flightmode for 6 hours and start somafm drown zone with descending volume?
Select "work" for calander and email app open in background and network config change. Possibilitys are endless.
But i concour, in its current state and lifted to the place it is currently, it feels forced as it contradicts simple user expectations.

OTOH, sfos is open enough to be patched to your liking and since patches already exist. Problem solved for the time being?

What jolla should really do imho is give patchers official acknowledgment and ship sfos with most popular patches as official options in system settings + compensate the community coders. Be it only the outlook to be "promoted" from residing within patchmanager to official distro systm settings as "reward"?