No, don't let a tablet run a desktop operating system! You wouldn't feed your car hay, would you? (I'm echoing Henry Ford's "People don't want cars, they want better horses", or whatever the exact quote.) The dust on my Surface Pro 3 and using the third not-keyboard cover in four years on my 2018 large iPad show that (to me).
In contrast to your experience, my "work"flow has me use my desktop computers (most of them notebooks) for limited hours and additional tasks only. I do have Apple Pencils and a Wacom tablet (and obviously hardware keyboards, both typewriter and piano ones), but I prefer the on-screen keyboard, in portrait orientation. And using my fingers for on-screen controls like when editing photos.
Furthermore, I have discovered (or merely concluded?) that shifting from those desktops to tablets happens to compensate the electricity I use for cooking.