Switch hitting doesn't have the same value in softball as it does in baseball.
I disagree for all the same reasons you already listed. That skill is an advantage in softball the same as in baseball - at least around here it is. Our area has some serious softball going on from youth through adults.
My right handed niece has mastered a killer left handed slap bunt so she can use her speed to get on base or advance others already on base. She had to really work at it, but I'm hoping DD7 will come at it more naturally.
