I’ve been resisting multiplexers for similar reasons for a long time. But I think tiling window managers start to become a hindrance when you have a non trivial number of terminal sessions open.

I like to think of tiling window manager as a program to manage windows, while the multiplexer manages terminal sessions. Many of my terminal sessions are backgrounded rather than having a dedicated window hanging somewhere. Many of them are only running some program and are no longer being used interactively.

Fuerhermore, with a multiplexer, you can easily launch a new session in the same directory you’re in, same environment, or same ssh host you ssh’ed into.

With that being said, it is probably possible to figure out a good workflow using tiling window managers. It is probably harder and most tiling managers Dont provide the features by default, imo, but I bet it’s possible.