With all the customization abilities of DOP 12 Pro it seems very strange that there is no possibility of turning off the Tabs feature. For users like me it is not only totally unnecessary but it is a great inconvenience to have to continually close tabs that just accumulate in unreasonalbe numbers. If you like them, fine, use them. But there should be a way to totally turn off the Tabs feature so we don't have to continually do cleanup work just from changing directories several times. At the very least it's an added step of maintenance and should be elective not mandatory.
You won't get additional tabs if you don't open them. You can disable the display of the tab bar when there's only a single tab open.