No, did you? I think you were the first one to put your experience forward as some kind of reference of knowledge.
I just tie the bags at the top.
That's a PITA. Then you have to cut them off to open them making them useless for anything else. Paper bags can be re-used several times. Besides, at the store I go to they usually fill the plastic bags too full to tie them and I appreciate that they do so that I don't have so many bags to deal with.
For those, like me, who prefer good paper bags they can be purchased online.
Nothing works better than a paper grocery bag for drying herbs.
I keep a cardboard box in my trunk, and set the paper grocery bags in them, keeps them upright so nothing falls out of them on the way home.
I have never had to cut one off to get it open. Use the right knot. I then use them to carry my lunch to work and in the kitchen and bathroom trash cans.