I'd probably cry of happiness
Paranormal is one that's been already brought up, but I'd really like Adventure. Action isn't quite what a lot of fantasy stories are, with journeys and interesting new places over fights or thrills.
same. Im main romance Now... because it's a paranormal romance. but I think paranormal would fit better
Except that "isekai" is just the "Adventure" genre with maybe a split of "Fantasy" like you said. But look at the genre's for The Chronicles of Narnia, which is 100% "accidental adventure" and that's categorized as "Fantasy".
Adventure tends to be hard to define, and doesn’t have readership base. Writers would pull back to fantasy once their books are not being read. Fantasy and sci-fi pretty much always have adventure if they main adventure. Which leaves adventure without a speculative component, something that is rarely written online. Action takes care of the rare but existing spies and non-supernatural assassins thrillers. So there is some audience share. You probably are better off with izekai split, since it is a big subgenre online and fairly easy to qualify.
Even then, I feel like it'd work better at least to select as a secondary genre. You can get a lot of weird first impressions depending on what follows the primary Fantasy tag.
This is why I've struggled with finding a genre on this site. I write Paranormal Fantasy but most people looking for fantasy want High Fantasy. Even outside of Tapas when a lot of people say they like Fantasy they mean High Fantasy over Urban/Paranormal Fantasy. I feel like High Fantasy is a lot more popular than other branches of the genre.
As secondary genre, it’s great! But the problem is that Tapas does run every genre separately, so it gotta fill up with the books... I think Action/Adventure might fit the bill, sifting away those few stories that do not have a big fantasy component
Genre labels have a role to play, but I'm wondering whether tagging not working as promised is also part of the problem?
Series tags do work to an extent, but I've found the more specific the term is the better it works, especially if it's a single word with no breaks in between.
Like I search "polyamory" and relevant series show up great even without having to specify 'tags' in the results!
But then I search "age gaps" and as the search goes through titles first, I get a lot of irrelevant series with "Age" in the title. And when I specify 'tags' there are no results despite using the tag myself on one of my series.
It's a bit of a worry given how randomly, in practice, various readers probably run searches for what they think they want ...
Like a lot of the above responses, I would appreciate the addition of the paranormal and adventure tags at least. It was so hard to decide which one of the current tags for my stories, luckily you can get sub-categories, but even those didn't cover exactly what I wanted... so complicated! lol
Overall, I think taking inspiration from the Wattpad categories might be a good idea, and would make people happier ^^
I agree with everyone else saying that supernatural/paranormal would be very nice additions to have.
I'm currently labeling my story as a "fantasy/horror/mystery" and tagging it as "urban fantasy", although truth to be told I don't feel like the "horror" part is all that prevalent in my story (I mean, yes, there will be vampires, werewolves and some gore, but... more like what you'd see in a "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" episode than a "Saw" movie? XD) and I'm only just starting to realize that most people apparently think of the "fantasy" genre as something more LoTR-esque rather than modern/contemporary? D: Anyway yep, more sub-genres would be neat! High fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, dark fantasy... honestly, there's plenty of labels that could be added, and not just for fantasy 
I think more filtering options for all genres could help both readers (who could then find the exact type of content they want to see) and creators (who'd have a chance to become more noticeable in their specific niche instead of getting lost among thousands of different comics/novels all lumped under the same genre).
I actually really like the idea of sub-genre drop downs within the larger categories - gives a good opportunity to include novels that have crossover genres, whereas right now, it seems as it there's not too much use to the secondary genres besides giving readers a more refined idea when they click on the novel.
To use paranormal romance as an example - the author could choose to have romance as the primary genre and it won't show up in paranormal but if someone in paranormal selects "paranormal romance" from a sub-filter it shows up?
I guess that might be difficult to code and you get the further limit of actually choosing which sub-genres to represent when there's a nearly infinite amount of them, but it would be nice to see more refinement options, especially in some of the incredibly broad genres.
In my opinion, the Mature section should be better divided. Feels 90% BL and GL only when you click the icon. BL and GL have their justification just like any other category.
Yes! I'd love it if they'd add 'supernatural' as a genre, my comic is a supernatural comedy, It'd definitely help me out if they'd add that one 
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