One of the main benefits of being an attribute on the checkbox input is it will still work properly on browsers that don't support it.
I expect that's the primary reason they did it this way, creating a new input would stop people from adopting it (without polyfills) for many years.
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One of the main benefits of being an attribute on the checkbox input is it will still work properly on browsers that don't support it.
I expect that's the primary reason they did it this way, creating a new input would stop people from adopting it (without polyfills) for many years.