I remember reading this jwz post[1] in 2012 where he said he never uses tabs at all, and realizing that I can use a combination of windows and tabs. So now I just have each window contain a bunch of tabs for one topic. If it's WIP, the window stays open or minimized, if it's a long term thing, I convert it to Safari's tab group. Not sure why more people don't use multiple windows, it's way more convenient than just having hundreds of tabs in one window.

[1]: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/04/why-i-use-safari-instead-of...