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Just to clarify - I do not claim that learning-roadmap is a great tag. (Although I can imagine that it can be useful sometimes.)
All I am saying that the tag has been around for a long time and I did not notice some objections to the tag. (Maybe this is partially caused by the fact that most MO users do not care about tags.)
Although in this specific case, I should have remembered that this tag has already been added to the question (by me) and later removed (by another user): mathoverflow.net/posts/337533/revisions
Yes you already said it clearly. The problem with meta tags is if they become substitutes to thematic tags. Creating a hierarchy of related meta tags (cf the more frequent reference-request, textbook-recommendation) makes it tempting to use several such tags in questions that have a reasonably precise mathematical subject, at the expense of thematic tags.
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