I constantly open and close terminals too. Maybe I'm doing a quick lazygit check on cwd. Maybe I'm opening up an ephemeral claude/codex session for a couple questions about why a test failed. Or quickly editing a file with vim. Or remembering where I put that file with yazi or fzf. -- I don't even know, but all of it is contingent on it being fast to open a new terminal in cwd.

So much so that I vibe-coded my own terminal emulator for vertical tabs on macOS (using libghostty for the terminals) that is faster and less weird than iTerm.