I just realized I called it "tiling WM", but I use tabbed windows more than tiling features.

I tend to have one main stack of tabbed windows on each workspace, out from which I "push" a window or two to create splits whenever I want to display multiple things at the same time.

I have some workspaces that are tabbed (that's typically the case where I'm using a browser), some that are tiled, and some that use both -- usually involving a tab group in one tile and one or more other tiles on the same workspace.

I guess the ability to mix tabs with tiles (in whatever arrangements I want) is what keeps me using i3 instead of others. I'd love to get dwm's tags with i3's tabs and tile management.