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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by haskal on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @10:27PM (#16279460)
1. When you exit a terminal it dumps irrelevant stuff rather than just closing the tab.

    ~ % exit 
    
    [Process completed]
2. Cmd + Arrow doesn't doesn't move to the next or last tab. (Cmd + number does work however, but it doesn't show numbers on the tab list like iTerm)

3. Comes with terrible defaults like the screen color.

Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by Jakob on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:20AM (#16280743)
There certainly are some advantages of iTerm2 but the ones you stated are very easily done in Terminal.app:

1. Settings > Profiles > Shell > When the shell exits: [Close the window|Close if the shell exited early|Don’t close the window]

2. macOS standard for all applications is the following.

  - next tab: ⌃⇥ or ⌘⇧]
  - previous tab: ⌃⇧⇥ or ⌘⇧[
If you really want to change that, you can do so in System Preferences

3. Settings > New window with profile: Pro