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TL;DR

Pretty much just Minecraft Buttons, Levers, and Pressure plates for circuit networks.

What?

I think these could work by pressing and holding interact for Buttons, tapping interact for Levers, and walking on Pressure plates, and they all output their state to the circuit network.

Why?

I think these will improve circuit networks by providing more interactability without having to open a GUI.

Here's a mod that implements a new entity that is a button, combined with a keybind that also works with constant combinators to turn them into switches.
While this doesn't have pressure plates, you can kind of do that with gates anyways.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/pushbutton

I do agree that it should probably be promoted to base, this mod works well enough for now that I'm not too upset.

It's when you don't have the mod, that you notice, how much you are missing .
I'd also love for the button to come to vanilla.