Agreed, but even more so, to the extent that I try to do this "plate-clearing" early and often, in between tasks over the course of a single day, and somewhat obsessively close both browser tabs and desktop windows.
This doesn't mean that more comprehensive browser (and more general desktop) session management tools couldn't be useful!
As it stands, for long-running tasks that necessarily need to be interrupted, I tend to use task-specific VMs, which is wasteful in cases where no background processing is involved.
For example, it'd be useful to extend browsers' (and certain other applications, including macOS applications by UI convention) save/restore state on application quit/restart features to allow multiple state instances to be saved/restored (while still allowing usefully global state to be shared, unlike, e.g., Firefox profiles).
Now imagine the same thing, but across applications and integrated with the desktop environment as, e.g., named, persistent virtual desktop sets.
This doesn't mean that more comprehensive browser (and more general desktop) session management tools couldn't be useful!
As it stands, for long-running tasks that necessarily need to be interrupted, I tend to use task-specific VMs, which is wasteful in cases where no background processing is involved.
For example, it'd be useful to extend browsers' (and certain other applications, including macOS applications by UI convention) save/restore state on application quit/restart features to allow multiple state instances to be saved/restored (while still allowing usefully global state to be shared, unlike, e.g., Firefox profiles).
Now imagine the same thing, but across applications and integrated with the desktop environment as, e.g., named, persistent virtual desktop sets.