He’s less bananas about this one, but I’d say it’s equally surprising! 😆

Here's a take:

The "new" compact tab bar in iPadOS 26.4 is good and I like using it with vertical tabs in Safari (which, yes, you can enable).

https://www.macstories.net/notes/well-i-guess-i-like-safaris-compact-tab-bar-in-ipados-24-also-using-vertical-tabs-in-safari-for-ipad/