First, let me say that I've seen that the previous discussions of this issue have been closed, so I'm starting a new discussion. I don't often use the tabs bar, but today I couldn't find what I wanted and after spending way too much of my time, I discovered that my tabs bar was missing. After much more time I learned that by switching to the traditional view I could get it back. THIS IS A BUG AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED. A workaround that can take hours to find is not a fix. At the minimum, the recommended view should have a switch to turn the tabs bar on, but the real fix would be to not have it just go away. Wasting hours of your customers' time to discover a workaround is not a solution.
Sorry for shouting, but I am an everyday user who uses the tabs bar so infrequently that I forgot it exists.