Floor mats - are they a bit odd or is it me?

First post. First of all, thanks to all you members for the wealth of information on this forum, which helped greatly this spring as I started to do research on buying a Gen III and finally bought one this summer.

Overall it's a great car and I really can't add any more praise than has already been heaped on it a million-fold.

There's one tiny thing that baffles me. It's so odd I can't understand how Toyota could plausibly offer this as a solution. It concerns the floor mats, and specifically, the system using the two little hooks to hold the driver's side mat in place. They're an absolute PITA! Either that, or I just don't get it. I googled this topic and searcjed here on this forum but didn't find anything, so apologies if this has been discussed already.

Because the two hooks are a pretty tight fit in the mats' eyelets and then coupled with the fact that the hooks spin, I find myself exerting far too much energy and blurting out cuss words in getting them out. Getting them back in is no less frustrating since the hooks typically move (spin) a bit getting the mats out, they don't line up with the holes, so you sort of have to guesstimate where to put the hooks before putting the mat in place. Again, am I missing something? Are mine broken and are supposed to be fixed in place? My wife's 2006 Volvo V70 has a much better solution. They have small plastic posts installed in the floor (for all mats, not just the driver's) with corresponding snaps in the mats, and so taking the mats out and putting them back in is a cinch. Why all automakers wouldn't follow the same simple format is beyond me. Mayb Volvo has a patent on it?

As a workaround, I just flipped the hooks 180 degrees and then use the hooks to basically hold the back edge of the mat instead of cussing and fiddling trying to get the hooks through the holes. Works well enough although the mat will creep up a bit since now nothing's holding it.

Anyway, can y'all enlighten me?