That may be true, but from your wording, it sounds like you are just giving a preliminary "opinion" and not necessarily a final answer (?).
Surely there is some type of solution, as I would think that the COBSW runtime switches are pretty basic - they have been around for a long time. Please also note that I have now also tried this for native (doing the Application.config approach) and it did not work either. Is there anything else we can try or do?