There's nothing wrong with innovation, of course. A lot of controls needed to change to work well on touch interfaces, like the sliding toggles iOS use(d), and the large, connected touch areas that have replaced the small labels and click targets that computers used to have.

There's no reason to abandon the toggle button/checkbox distinction, though. They're still used distinctively, there are common practices to indicate those distinctions that go back decades, and I don't see any need to unify these controls.