My pleasure. Besides restoring the usage of the defaults I think it makes it easier to create a notch. Also separating the visibility from the creation makes a lot more sense. At some point I should probably update the Pattern Piece Dialog → Notches page to disable the show checkboxes depending on the SA type. I thought of it, but it’s a bit more involved than in the context menu.
I have an issue that may be related to these changes: The notches can be set and are shown just fine in the "piece” mode, but are apparently missing in “layout” mode. I may be missing some other setting, but I’m pretty sure it worked like that in previous versions…
It does not matter if I turn it on for either seamline or cutline or both. It never shows in the layout for me 
@Douglas I just downgraded to 2026.7.13.214 and the notches are showing in the layout again
Confirmed. I’l have a fix for it ASAP.
I have resolved the issue, and the fix should be in the next week’s release. 
BTW… thanks for the PR to fix the default prefs “show” settings. I have included in the fix for the missing layout / export notches your fix for the context menu in the PatternPiece Tool->Paths which you missed.
I think what I was thinking is that the notch show properties are set to the default in the node point constructor… but for some reason I set them to true… which overrides the default constructor setting. 