Did they somehow fix the “screen/tmux breaks terminal scrollback” thing that’s always prevented me from doing that as a matter of course? Because I agree, it would be great, if it didn’t mean that I can’t just grab my mouse and spin the wheel to look at the session output history.
I do sometimes run screen -R before doing a long dnf operation on a remote host, because I know I can just detach the session, log out, even reboot my local machine, and then just come back later and reattach. For “special occasions”, that’s great. But I can’t imagine running that way by default, and having to deal with the clunky history access.