Product Tags feature is not included in Magento 2

Question

First, I'm confused whether this question will fit the requirements of a question expected on this site, if that's the case, please indicate that.

Just installed a fresh version of Magento 2 to get the feel of the new system. When going through modules, I noticed that the Product Tags feature is not there. Also, couldn't find any admin page for the same. Looked around the web but couldn't find any relevant information on that.

Has Magento dropped that feature in the new release, if yes, does anyone know why? That happened to be one of some awesome features of Magento right out-of-the-box.

Answer 1

There was a survey conducted at one point on twitter (and maybe other channels) By Elena Leonova asking the community if they use certain modules from Magento 1.
After this survey, the decision was taken to not port the tags and polls modules to Magento 2 because there was not much use of them.
But I'm almost sure someone from the community will implement them for Magento 2.

Answer 2

Yes, Magento dropped this feature from Magento 2. There are no any core module is exist in Magento2.

It indicates that this feature is deprecated at Magento 2

May be #benmarks & @Alankent, will tell us why this feature had removed from Magento 2

Answer 3

This feature is not used by stores anymore, it is not useful for customer navigation. Years ago, it had some SEO value but does not have it anymore, together with HTML site maps. It was removed so there is less code to maintain.

As Marius mentioned, if there is a need, there will be a community module to do that.

I'm curious why you say it was awesome - I personally haven't seen any interesting, modern store use it.