Replace background checkerboard transparency by solid color.

I can't believe I'm the only one I've been struggling with this for decades... How can I get rid of transparency checkerboard? Back in the 90's, Corel Draw had it as default, you could decide the color of the "page", so you could see how it would see over not white backgrounds (screen printing and plotter for example).

I need to eliminate that obnoxious checkerboard in the background to work with transparency. I've been trying for weeks to edit a handful of complex white logos, which I obviously want to be able to see on a "NON-WHITE" background as is the default color of the Artboards. Checkerboards destroy my retina and prevent me from following the contours of the elements.

And no... it doesn't help me to create a giant dark-colored box that covers all the Artboards. It is tedious to lock/unlock, activate and deactivate each time I export the assets to avoid the background appearing by mistake. In Photoshop you can edit the individual color of each square, or even turn it off.

Would it be so difficult to create a basic button to deactivate checkerboard and/or choose the background color?