This really bothers me too. For a while, I've been considering writing a window manager (or wayland compositor) that tabs all windows by default, and provides a

This really bothers me too. For a while, I've been considering writing a window manager (or wayland compositor) that tabs all windows by default, and provides an easy model around un-nesting tabs and tiling the new window. Something like the tabs of i3 meets the simplicity of bspwm. The idea being I can then just use new windows for applications, and have the same keyboard shortcuts and semantics for tabs everywhere.