Officially im not part of the "group" that handles the authors. Changes are being made for the improvement of GA. As for changing tags, I have nothing to do with that. You would have to take that up with the adminstration dealing with that section. I dont know if it has been annouced or not but officially the "GAC" are no longer, it has now been devided into diffrent teams, to help with the many diffrent aspects that our community had here.
Thank-You for posting your "rant", I hope that the team that handles shared and hosted authors can help you out more.
Jules