I typically open Emacs when I boot my laptop, and close it when I shut down (which happens only every few weeks); this is typical of a lot of Emacs users. In t

I typically open Emacs when I boot my laptop, and close it when I shut down (which happens only every few weeks); this is typical of a lot of Emacs users. In those few weeks, I open hundreds of buffers and I rarely close them: my buffer list contains all the TeX files from the paper I'm working on, the code files of a couple different projects, many one-off files, IRC buffers, twitter buffers, etc. Yet, switching to the buffer I want is easy, fast, and painless. Using ivy (helm or ido-flx are good too), I can quickly switch to any buffer by typing part of its name. This paradigm would be totally impossible (or at the very least, most impractical) if I had one tab-per-buffer. I think if Vim or Visual Studio Code had a similar quick way of switching between buffers, people would be less reliant on tabs. As for Emacs, it seems like a waste of time and effort to implement a feature that most Emacs users would not use.