Yeah, this is a lot of my biggest concerns, too. A lot of us here don't do anything on IJ but S_D, and we still use all these icons. And I've been thinking about the tags situation for a bit, and if our ceiling's cut down so far, the thing that's gonna suffer the most is character tags, which is arguably the most important part. Plus, seven months of posts that'll have to be re-tagged, and who's gonna have to do that? Yeah, a handful of us wranglers. :(
It's a stability vs. functionality argument, and while the first is important, the latter just can't be ignored.