Certainly for some people. I just prefer the tradeoff of carefully curating my taskbar at the expense of my tab list. I (over)use the keyboard shortcut of wind

Certainly for some people. I just prefer the tradeoff of carefully curating my taskbar at the expense of my tab list. I (over)use the keyboard shortcut of windows key+# (so win+1 switches the focus to the first application icon on the taskbar, win+2 the second, etc), and I've got muscle memory of which applications are pinned to each place. Plus, I've already got the muscle memory of how to get to the various websites I keep open.