Should disabled options still be flagged as mandatory?

Building an application form for internal trained agents to help on-board new clients. Many pages of input, lots of info to add. 95% of fields are mandatory.

My design called for mandatory fields to be the default, with only optional fields being called out. Business did not like that, so now 95% of the field labels have a little red asterisk.

The application is very dynamic, so previous selections affect not only subsequent hide/show states but also mandatory/optional states.

Many buttons are Yes/No toggles. Often, a previous choice means the Yes/No decision is made for the user. So a toggle button might be auto-selected to Yes and disabled.

All that for a simple question:

If a toggle button has been auto-selected and auto- disabled, should it still have an asterisk to denote that it's mandatory?

I can go both ways.

To a typical (trained) user, "mandatory" could mean:

  • this option must be actively chosen by me, therefore an asterisk on a disabled field is unexpected.
  • this button must merely have an option selected (passive); it is not necessary to tell me something I don't need to know.

Opinions?