There’s two huge reasons a person should consider tapering their benzodiazepine. The first is that sooner or later their benzo will stop working. Took 25 years for me. Research benzo tolerance. The second is the younger doctors are absolutely not prescribing long term benzo prescriptions. Should your long time doctor die or retire you’re going to wind up in a huge mess trying frantically to get your benzo script. This is what we’re seeing generally and of course there will be exceptions. No many though.