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this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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To each his own, but your use case seems like the worst way to accomplish what you need. There are so, so many apps that will allow you to pin a widget to one of your homescreens with a to-do; why on earth would you want to have that living in your notification shade? I have a Keep to-do widget and the Android battery widget on a second homescreen to the right of the main. Exactly as much work as pulling down the shade, except I swipe left instead of down, and no chance of accidentally clearing the persistent notification.
It's not quite the same - the notification shade can be pulled down from anywhere, no matter what app you're in, whereas what you describe only really works if you're on the home screen.
I have a calendar widget that I use, but this was more for the very important "leave a sticky on the doorknob" type tasks.
I tried a widget for a while, but I found that I either didn't swipe to that page or I didn't like having that space blocked off by an empty widget for the periods of time when I didn't have a task.
It worked for what I needed, but I guess I'll explore options again
The problem is you are trying to use a system for something it was never intended for. Persistent notifications were only ever intended for long running background services.
Even for those though it's broken now. For example, I use fkm as an indicator that my phone is dozing/charging correctly and rotation control to force apps into the orientation I want them. Both effectively require persistent notifications to work as intended.
This behavior decision by Google is a straight downgrade. It needed to be at worst togglable by the user.