You can disable it. Settings > When Notepad starts > Start new session and discard unsaved changes
Oh, great, they added a "Users Resistance is invalid" button - so everyone can go along with it, until they remove it in 2 updates and then, well you had a choice and the choice was to swallow whatever you get served.
Wow. I'd totally missed the Settings screen. Tiny little gear icon on the right...
(And cute: it spins when I click it. Blech.)
Oh good. More things I have to configure out of box.
always the first thing i disable in Notepad++
Oddly remembers tabs for me just fine.
GP is saying that they don't want that, not that it doesn't work.