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recover-session is meant specificaly for recovering editing that was
lost in the crash of a session.

If you want to save and restore session status, we already have a
package for that: desktop.  That works when you exit Emacs.  I don't
think it makes sense to use recover-session for this job.  It would
only "work" after a session crashes, which would be inconsistent; and
it would only "work" partially, because it would only recover the
files, not the other aspects of the session.