Visual bullet on tabs?

This may be pretty trivial, but it annoys me.

There's a visual indicator on some tabs to indicate if there is any data on them.  For example, the System Notes tab on a customer record will always have a little bullet in front of the 'System Notes' text to indicate content.  And in version 10, when cases were in a sub-tab, the indication was there too.

This visual indicator is very handy to let our users know which tabs they should probably check when examining a record.  However, the indicator no longer appears on main-level tabs.  So in version 11, the support tab which shows case records on a customer record won't show the indicator even if there are cases tied to the customer.  Similarly for custom tabs that we create that contain records, no indicator appears.