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Look, my input matters less than any serious Workbench user, but IMO both these bullets are extraneous:

Peter Amstutz wrote:

1. I think the preferred tab should appear first in tab order, so if you want to see workflows, the tabs are |Workflows (10)|Data (50)|

As long as the preferred tab opens first, why does the display order matter? I feel like this makes documentation and information sharing more difficult without any tangible benefit.

1. If the preferred tab is empty, switch to the alternate tab, unless they are both empty.

I think this is just too clever by half. I think it will make the interface feel less predictable and more random. If I want to see workflows first, and I open a project with no workflows, I would prefer to be told that explicitly rather than be shown something else. I get that it saves clicks if you understand everything going on, and I get why some people might want that, but I think it'll be surprising and disorienting when you're not expecting it.

Brett Smith wrote in #note-20:

Look, my input matters less than any serious Workbench user, but IMO both these bullets are extraneous:

Peter Amstutz wrote:

1. I think the preferred tab should appear first in tab order, so if you want to see workflows, the tabs are |Workflows (10)|Data (50)|

As long as the preferred tab opens first, why does the display order matter? I feel like this makes documentation and information sharing more difficult without any tangible benefit.

1. If the preferred tab is empty, switch to the alternate tab, unless they are both empty.

I think this is just too clever by half. I think it will make the interface feel less predictable and more random. If I want to see workflows first, and I open a project with no workflows, I would prefer to be told that explicitly rather than be shown something else. I get that it saves clicks if you understand everything going on, and I get why some people might want that, but I think it'll be surprising and disorienting when you're not expecting it.

This is useful feedback, I will tweak the description (Stephen, hold off on starting this until I've had a chance to update the description, hopefully later today).