[cturner]

You can get a fair bit of that with terminal multiplexers like tmux. It does not have the ability to style different tabs. But it has advantages too. For example, you can have multiple terms connected to a single tmux session, you can run tmux when ssh’d to a remote server, the tool is not tied to a particular vt.

Not to say your setup is deficient, but I think I understand where the parent is coming from.