Side note: yes, and no (apparently!) I am told if you use Stage Manager and you have the terminal app in the same stage as, say, your browser app or editor, it

Side note: yes, and no (apparently!) I am told if you use Stage Manager and you have the terminal app in the same stage as, say, your browser app or editor, it is not "in the background" as a process, even when it's occluded. Though it seems to me that as soon as a window is taken full screen, it's on a new stage. So you have to use them windowed? Or in Split View, which grants the same "both in the foreground" privileges. Which is as bizarre and arbirary as much of the rest of iPadOS. Which as you suggest, needs to stop feeling so much like a 1980s co-operative multitasking system. (Edit to add: I suppose it is not _ridiculous_ that multitasking is in some ways tied to visual presence: apps don't need to be quit, and that which is not on the screen is not running full time. Even if it does make it very difficult to use one for work. It's quite an iOS-ish thing, to make the relationship between what you can see and what is happening more concrete. The camera works this way after all.)