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Your experience of physical buttons is limited. There are many sorts. To pick an apposite example: The "Pause" button on old tape players used to be press-and-release to change state. Because it was a direct mechanical linkage and not motorized on some players/recorders, this made it possible to perform quite accurate editing with very basic kit: pressing and releasing pause to pause, pressing it again and keeping it held down, and releasing exactly when one desires to un-pause.

Now THERE's a rabbit-hole if ever I saw one. Here's an 8-part (!) article [0] on why a physical button is in reality... nowhere near that simple.

[0]: https://www.eejournal.com/article/ultimate-guide-to-switch-d...

Can’t physical buttons work either way, depending whether you want to break a normally closed circuit or close a normally open circuit.

Imagine a physical button on a car stereo. It activates when you press it, not when you press and release it.