Yes, I was thinking specifically of the BOX Pink. Even though I haven't tried it.
Jades could be fatiguing over time, so something in between BOX White [too weak] and BOX Jade [pretty crispy] would be okay.
I've heard people say "BOX Jades were fun...for the first day."
But yes, MX-compatible clickies often have a tactile quality that MX 'tactiles' can't reach. The click bars and click jackets add a dimension absent in the 'interrupted linears' that MX tactiles are.
The only thing better than that are mechanisms in which the operation of the switch is closely tied to the tactile event, making it richer and more genuine. Something like ALPS or especially buckling spring, I guess?
Box pinks are very nice, perfect for someone who likes the sound and feel of jades but think they're a little too much, be it in stiffness or tactility. They should be in every switch tester and keyboard manufacturers are kicking themselves not offering them as a standard option. It baffles the mind that whites are still a semi-common offering and the variants people actually want are not.
I can't imagine too many people are actually fatigued by Jades. The tactility and sound may not be someone's cup of tea, but their weighting really isn't that bad. I have been using these MX blacks for over a week now and I still feel like I would be more comfortable/confident on box navies. Similarly, box navies are more comfortable to me than membrane buckling spring. Jades are stiffer than MX blue, but they're pretty comparable to Alps/Matias clickies. It should only be a (relatively small) issue if you're used to pretty light Cherrys and clones.
Alps (in good shape) and capacitive buckling spring are ever-so-slightly more refined/nuanced and smooth than the box family, or Matias. I'm sure it does help for some that buckling spring's tactile event and actuation are inextricably linked. Personally, I just think it is icing on the cake. I feel like the tactile event of beamsprings are just a little
too simple. They're the smoothest clicky you'll ever feel, but the tactile event doesn't have as many different sensations going on as Alps or CBS. It is almost as if the bump is just floating there in a void, encountered merely by proximity. While subjective, there's something very special about the unique sounds of complicated Alps and CBS as well.
I have no idea where it is anymore, but I have tried to compare the nuance of complicated Alps and CBS to modern clickies in this forum, and why I think they stand a cut above the rest. Complicated Alps feels like the entire tactile event was carefully engineered. It is crisp, but not sharp, firm and highly tactile ... yet at the same time never harsh. You can feel a sudden (yet very subtle) increase in weighting (probably having more to do with the leaves than the coil spring) just before the ledge that is the tactile event, giving you a heads up just before you arrive and transitioning you gently and seamlessly onto that ledge. All of this it does while also somehow feeling like all of the surfaces involved are perfectly smooth.
Box jades and Matias switches both capture
some nuance that is very similar, but neither are quite as refined/balanced as complicated Alps. Matias, specifically, feels like steps of that process were eliminated entirely. You plop down onto that shelf unceremoniously without warning, the tactile event that follows doesn't feel quite as .... elegant.
Capacitive buckling spring, similarly (though less subtly), ramps its weighting up to the finale of the tactile event ... which itself is actually sudden and relatively light in that you really don't even ever feel a bump so much as a
very slight vibration from the spring as it buckles. The weight just drops right off and you descend rapidly to the bottom of travel. The only thing that really tells you it is about to break is how stiff the spring currently feels. This is really the only sensory feedback you get with CBS besides the sound of the click, the musical twang of the spring as it vibrates after buckling. Everything but that spring sort of just melts away.
No matter how well you describe them, words do not do them justice. There is no mass market switch made today that can be compared to them directly. They must be felt for yourself. The relation of the tactile event to actuation is just a small piece of the pie.
You can only be so objective as well. I think the tendency to glorify blue Alps and CBS for their unique qualities has some very real merit. How much of that is just personal preference is up for debate. I have tried a good deal of totally different mechanisms though, and have tried to type for extended periods on all of the clicky mechanisms I could get my hands on. The beamspring board is an exception because it was listed on Ebay before I even rushed over to see it.