WTH can't I specify on and off icons for toggle helpers?

You should be able to also use lovelace-card-mode, but there is an issue

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yes, but you can use 3.1.4 :wink: still its a longer standing bug, and Thomas hasnā€™t responded yet, so dont hold your breath, and find/use other ways listed above

Looks like the issue with card-mod icon is fixed in 2022.11.5

not sure about that.
hving updated to 2022.12 and the latest card-mod 3.2.0 the tab icons still are very fragile/unreliable:

even though the inspector shows the correct style:

which is set in in my card-mod-theme, I keep seeing this:

icon colors are reliable.