What confuses me about this system not being implemented is that far from being impossibly difficult- by all appearances, Tapas already seems to have everything in place. Comics are already sorted by genre. There is already an option to add tags to the comic as a whole, and even to individual pages. So it truly seems as though I should be able to search for the category "psychological horror" (as an example of a genre I enjoy) and receive a list of comics tagged in that way. Of course, ideally I would then be able to choose whether I want the information presented in order of most recently updated, alphabetically, by greatest subscribers, and so on (much of this is information Tapas already draws on, presumably, when generating the Fresh and Trending lists).
Sadly, the best way I've found to locate comics I enjoy on Tapas is to stumble upon the profile pages of creators with similar tastes to mine, and browse them either for "thank you for subscribing" messages or just checking out their library to see what they follow. (in fact- @shazzbaa and @Croik, I believe this is actually how I originally found your respective pages, and I'm very glad for it) But I believe this way of doing things manually is far from ideal.
Of course- I agree that's very likely the case. I think you may have missed it because I tend to make long posts- but what I suggested in my response was actually a series of genre or tag-based sections sorted by most recently updated. Not so different, actually, from the Webtoon system- but preferably with more category options based on tags, rather than imposed genre divisions. These would still be uncurated fresh content/time-based update sections, as I described. Maybe we're using different terms to describe the same thing?
Do you remember the massive uproar about social media algorithms like that of Twitter and Instagram switching to engagement models (i.e. based largely on popularity) over time-based ones? Far from thanking these companies for the supposed improvement, many people immediately felt like it was unpleasantly controlling move- and of course, it was primarily tied to advertising.
So I don't think I'm the minority in this regard- in fact I believe most readers have similar aims.
We all want to be able to go and find the things we like for ourselves, rather than having to dig through trending stories that we may or may not find completely unappealing (which, incidentally, is little better than digging through an uncategorized fresh section if I seldom enjoy genres like slice of life romance- the youtube equivalent would probably be digging through hundreds of adorable cat videos to find one artist interview).
My suggestion doesn't require a robust personal recommendation AI. Being able to search though (already existing) tags more easily is really all it takes.