Boolean Field: Ability to update all records with default value upon creation

This would be SO nice to have. I know about this gotcha and it still trips me up from time to time.

Been there, would be nice as a quality of life improvement to safeguard me against myself when I forget that default values don’t do anything for existing data.

I've tripped over that same stone more times than I'd like to admit.

Yup + 1 here. Have a rule that I can run ad-hoc to default them. But, why, when adding a boolean field you’re given the option to apply a default value, only to have that value not apply is truly baffling. 

Also, worth noting that unless using Horizon Rules (Which are a significant improvement) there’s no way to accomodate a boolean value of null via Rules Engine - it appears that its logic doesn’t consider Null to be != True, for example.

We do the rule work around too.And, this works as expected.

However, the main issues I have with this is,

1. This doesnt work on all objects. What if it is a back end field on CTAs or SPs?
2. I dont want my modified date update. modified could be used in rules to only fetch most recent modified records. This means all the records will be updated.
3. The time it takes ot build the rule and wait for it to execute.