It would cause more tabs to be open.
You can't use the old tab because all the plants. You open a new tab for the same page. Don't need to close any old tab for that.
Seems like we're recognizing something that people actually want: The assurance that their state will be preserved
versus what the operating system or browser can provide.
In fact, weren't bookmarks supposed to solve EXACTLY this? You'd just bookmark a website on any page then come back to it any time in the future.
But then websites wanted to be apps and stopped storing state in the URL...
Pro talking here…