In Safari - swipe up from the dots as a quick way to get to tabs. Avoids the double tap.

Nothing says intuitive like hidden gestures!

Yeah, I just learned about that, TBH. Never knew about it. I'm still hardwired to tap in the lower right corner for tabs. I haven't retrained my monkey brain just yet...

I'll concede that all this Safari tab stuff, with the workarounds, is less problematic to me than the Apple Watch face swiping thing when it arose. They conceded that too, but it took a .1 release to do it.