Why Every Guitar Should Have Push-Pull Pots?

My carbon fiber archtop has push pull pots and it is fantastic.

The pickup is a humbucker but was specifically custom made/ designed for split coil use because I don't generally ever play with humbuckers so it really simply sounds like a pure single coil pickup with the pot pulled out.

I had two guitars with p/p split coil. Didn't use it much. Prefer the sound of a bucker.
My Gibby bass also has the same setup. I may convert that to series/parallel someday.

I like the idea of the Blower Switch mod in that article. May try that one too.

My lp studio has push/pull pots. It’s the only guitar I’ve ever owned with that feature. I haven’t played it enough to really have a feel for them.

I never cared much for push-pull pots, even when they worked and fit the guitar. For me, there was always too great a chance that I'd bump them and change the setting or found it too difficult to determine whether they were pulled out or not. I can understand that there are some guitars that an extra switch might be an undesirable alteration, but I'll always choose a switch that I can visually see what position it's in, and is less likely to get bumped inadvertently. About the only reason I can see for using one is when you want a control (such as a tone pot) to perform multiple functions, such as regular treble cut in one position and a Bill Lawrence Q-Filter in the other.

I have never had a guitar with push/pull pots, my Carvin has a toggle switch fry the factory to split the humbuckers. I like it very much.

I am looking to incorporate push/pull pots into a guitar with P-Rail pups, they have a pickup mount with switches on them. I just don't see them being reliable so I think this is a better option.

I think push pots are cumbersome, especially if your going to use them while playing something. At least with a switch you don’t risk changing anything else. I know on my studio if the pot is out it’s hard to tell just by looking down on it while playing. They are a great option if you don’t want to drill holes retrofitting a switch on a guitar that does not have a splitting option as was mentioned in one of the posts.

Me either. When my carbon fiber archtop was built, the luthier didn't wasn't too cut the top to install the pickup so the better option was a shallow humbucker with a coil tap on a push pull knob. 

The only issue I have at all with that guitar is the volume sensitivity. I usually keep the guitar volume around 7 and it seems for some reason that if I dial even a fraction higher it is too loud and a fraction lower it isn't loud enough. 

But that had nothing to do with it being a push pull pot

It will be different for different persons & different guitars--but on my Les Paul, because of my size & shape--and the size & shape of the guitar--the location of my head & the push pull knobs it's obvious too me if the pot is up or down.

But I can see how for some people your eyes are at a different angle because you are taller or shorter or your eyes are not quite in the same place on your head that mine are--so even if you play my Les Paul, you get a different angle--and it might not be obvious.

Same if I were to try that with different guitar, maybe I can't tell for sure.

SO many variables, and as always--not every guitar suits every person.

On my strat, because the knob is 'decked' to the pickguard (in the down position), I can easily see if it is up or down. But a combination of that and the slope of the knob also makes it damn hard to pull it up if it is down. So double-edged sword.

The tele is slightly harder to see and slightly easier to operate.

It is especially annoying because I actually USE the neck pickup on my strat so when I hit it in a song it basically goes from bassy and mellow to super trebly- it is pretty obvious

I don't own a Strat, but my favourite settings are neck & neck + middle

Since we're talking about Strat pickup settings....My go-to Strat, which has Fender American Standard pickups, is set up with 13 possible pickup combinations, and my favourite setting is neck plus middle in series.