Its all down to use really tents are handy in open areas plus most have mossie protection and dont look out of place if you need to use a normal campsite on multiday trips ,
Tarps are fantastic in the woods all round vision for the sights and sound high up in good conditions low in bad ,
low down
in a camp site ,, hmmmm
Love um both ,
or you could go ,,, this was built by the locals in the woods in Norway