Older iPhones with physical home button use that for restart.

there's no iOS 7 device without home button :)

Do you have data for this? I'm also in the absolute minority

Me too. I want a blank page when I open my browser. If I reboot a device, I want nothing but base system running when it restarts.

I sure as heck want my tabs back. But I'd settle for "restore tabs" as I have to do that a lot in chrome on my MacBook Pro. On my Android, the tabs are just there and I really appreciate it. I have over a dozen tabs open on my phone and two dozen on my laptop.

But that’s why you need a “safe start mode” where you can start the app with a clean slate. Several Microsoft Office apps do this now. Given iOS’s repeated “crash loop” issues you’d think they’d have learnt by now.

That always bothers me. What if a page was (dumbly) in a state that makes a change I don't want?

I'm in that minority too, I guess. There's nothing more grating than to explicitly close all tabs, only to be asked whether you want to open them again. For me, tabs are like this useless plaque that slowly accumulates and needs to be blown away every two or three days.

Yep. I know someone who keeps dozens and dozens of tabs open on an iPhone. It's kind of like a bookmark library.

I explained that there is a bookmark feature just for this sort of thing, but when you're used to doing something one way, change can be slow.