The only thing I really have to say about AO3's latest contretemps is:
I told you so~When a platform is so fucked up that the only way to make it run is to take out the navigation, then it's time to think real hard about who's been driving development.
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Of course, they may choose to ignore your knowledge of the fandom and the actual real use of various tags, and tell you what's best by giving you a tag no one knows about and will never use and not fixing the actual problem you pointed out.
(That was the incident that opened my eyes to how fucked up tag-wrangling is on the AO3, how badly handled it is. It's the reason I listened so much during the election to other people's problems with tag-wrangling in its current form and came to hate the whole damn thing.)