The designer's perception that people will see it as a defect is perhaps giving consumers too much credit. I inspected several zippers around me, and most of t

The designer's perception that people will see it as a defect is perhaps giving consumers too much credit. I inspected several zippers around me, and most of them have the tab, yet I have never noticed, and I am not sure why I would care. A zipper pull with a tab seems slightly easier to grasp, anyway. Furthermore, many jackets and bags have cordage threaded through their zipper pulls, so it wouldn't even be felt by the user.