I can appreciate that answer, I just find it odd that all these manufacturers for mass produced guitars haven't found a way to do this yet. It's not laziness, its "working smarter, not harder". Im pretty damn good at soldering, and sometimes it takes me 5 minutes to get a good solder joint on the back of the pot. Sanding it back to fresh aluminum, scuffing it to promote adhesion, etc... sometimes its just a PITA to get it on there.... where as a simple terminal on the top would make that become a 2 second job. It also would almost entirely prevent cold joints on the top, because you could physically attach the wire, not just glue it to the top.
I did the math, and yeah its not really worth it industrial scale, so I can see that it wouldn't be a mass produced thing, however, there are some niche products out there, and I was hoping someone would know if this existed.
Good call on the tabbed pots, I totally forgot those exist. Usually I wind up buying those on accident when Im using it on a strat and have to clip them off.