As a new player I just want to say thanks for this update. Tagging seemed like an archaic mechanic and as someone just entering Ultimate I felt like I was always just scrambling to tag things and not really helping the group. So I was inclined to play solo rather than join groups.
Now, even though I'm still underleveled for many groups, I can focus on supporting better and locking down certain enemies, etc. without worrying about just throwing my slicer around to make sure I'm getting EXP before y'all kill everything.
So, I actually feel like less of a leech without the tagging mechanic, which is somewhat counterintuitive.