Good idea, Andrew. I don't know how easy it would be to convert to a gated selector, but if technically practical it would be a big improvement over the silly switch/indicator combination.
Electric flaps are the invention of the devil, and I have no idea why Cessna choose to use them rather than simple, positive manual flaps like Pipers and Citabrias have. Probably a marketing ploy; if so, it doesn't work, as far as I am concerned anyway.