[somat]

Because you can fit a lot of terminals on a modern display.

Aha! you say, just use tmux.

tmux is great, but I like the feel of a tileing window manager more than tmux.

[ninjin]

Well, you could always go with dvtm [1] and skip X11.

[1]: https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm

[MonkeyClub]

Or just Ctrl-Alt-Fn to the nth console (enabled in /etc/ttys).

Unless you’re coming in through com0, that is.