Some people have products that are very heavy on attributes
Making pages go own for ever. So having it on its own tab would be much better.

Now I suppose with the coding you could have the best of both worlds right?

Set global to off then code when you need it on?
Set global to on, then if you want the attributes on the first tab for a product,
set the code to turn on attributes for tab one?

I think its made to work for either...