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Technically yes but tabs are modal: You have to leave the tabbed mode to look at more than one window at once, and then the third window that opens will cause one of them or both to resize. Then you need to fix that by moving it to a new workspace or the tab container.
The idea is that with scrolling, resizing is always manual. New windows will never resize any existing ones, independent of any "mode" or which element you have focused.
It's not for everyone (personally I realized after a few months that I did not actually like scrolling, I just put up with it), but I do think it's a comparable paradigm shift as going from a stacking WM to a tiling one. Sure you can create tiling layouts on almost all stacking WMs fairly easily with simple mnemonic keyboard shortcuts, but using it feels different, if that makes sense?