Say you are cruising along at 50-60 mph & someone runs up on you... you want to play with them but they don;t want to wait until you adjust your tabs to where the indicators say is full up.... I want to hold the up button & go... not look down at the tab indicators... personal preference I suppose....

Same here - I like the stops as I can lay in to the rocker switch and not even look at the tab indicators. 99.9% of the time, I run with them parallel with bottom of the boat - that's 3 on my gauge and my stops, stop the tabs at 3.

I only use the tabs to get on plane.