Why you may make the switch
Although today’s modern laptops are significantly lighter and feature longer battery life than they did 11 years ago, few weigh as little as a tablet and even less get close to all-day battery life with normal use. For example, the 2020 12.9” iPad weighs about half as much as a comparable 13” laptop, if you don’t include a heavy keyboard case. With the iPad’s support of Bluetooth for mouses and keyboards, you don’t need that case.
Speaking of Bluetooth mouses and keyboards, input methods used to be a strength of laptops over tablets. It was cumbersome to accomplish certain tasks using a touch screen, such as working with spreadsheets, and the keyboards tablets could use took some getting used to. Now you can bring your favorite mouse and keyboard with you on your switch to tablets.