TL;DR
Implement true flipping behavior for inserters and buildings with a direct output to allow flipping them without risk of breaking functionality.

What?
Allow inserters and buildings with a direct output (mining drills, recyclers etc.) to choose whether they drop items on the left or right ...

Don't change the chirality of setups that rely on chirality. There's no way to do what you want without breaking other things or adding complexity to inserters.


Oh no! There's no way to do what I want without doing what I want!

Of course it would increase the complexity of inserters. There's ...

You are looking for the "Rotate" function (press the R key), which has existed in the game for much longer than Flipping, and preserves lefty-righty-ness (Edit: chirality is the word I was looking for, thank you computeraddict ;) ) of Inserter-Belt-lane setups like this.


If I was looking for ...

I'm quite aware of how it works. And the way it works causes some setups to break when flipped. This is fundamentally not expected behavior - ergo, a bug.

Configurations in which an inserter places items on belts directed towards the inserter or away from it cannot be exactly mirrored due to inserters lacking true flipping behavior. This then requires manually fixing problems after flipping or having to deliberately predict these problems and restrict ...

TL;DR
Improve the toggles for detailed information in map view (by which I mean remote view while zoomed out) and the way they are switched on/off with the Alt key.
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What?
Give each toggle three states, cycled through by clicking the buttons:
- always disabled ...