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Apple has decided that regular users should never see hidden files. I can see how this might be annoying to you, but I don't think I can be convinced that it's a bad justification.

>I should switch to Terminal every time I want to toggle hidden file visibility?

You only need to run that command once.

Someone wrote a little app that toggles it, but honestly, if you care that much about it to ask, just leave the hidden files visible all the time. I've found it to be the path of least confusion.

This widget works great for show/hide hidden files:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/hiddenfil...