I agree this is a HUGE deal breaker for my store, which sells fine art, sculptures to be exact, and thousands of them. Basically it is one product type, but I was using the tags to filter by subject matter like, polar bear, seal, walrus, fisherman, hunter, etc. I have dozens of tags like that and can’t be expected to make a collection for each one.
Also, I don’t recall seeing this mentioned here, but the filtering system they DO have for 2.0 doesn’t work if the collection has over 1000 products, which mine does. I mean, I do have smaller collections but sometimes a client wants to look at ALL the sculptures we have and then filter it down. Wouldn’t it make more sense to allow filtering the larger your collection is??
I do hope they have people working on it. Until this feature is re-added, I won’t bother customizing a 2.0 store any further as it could be a waste of time.