Yeah, I'm much the same, especially since I'm mostly in smaller fandoms with slim pickings and generally just after fic with good characterisation of my fave rather than particularly caring about the pairing or wanting a specific trope. I tend to find summaries a much more helpful indicator of whether I'm going to get on with a fic than the tags, so I pretty much just trawl through everything and try anything I don't outright bounce off of. (And no doubt I frustrate other people with my minimalist tagging, since I only tend to include freeform tags I would personally find useful for filtering, which is mostly just setting information like "pre-series" and occasionally a single central trope like "time travel".)
Re: Losing Yuletide
Yeah, I'm much the same, especially since I'm mostly in smaller fandoms with slim pickings and generally just after fic with good characterisation of my fave rather than particularly caring about the pairing or wanting a specific trope. I tend to find summaries a much more helpful indicator of whether I'm going to get on with a fic than the tags, so I pretty much just trawl through everything and try anything I don't outright bounce off of. (And no doubt I frustrate other people with my minimalist tagging, since I only tend to include freeform tags I would personally find useful for filtering, which is mostly just setting information like "pre-series" and occasionally a single central trope like "time travel".)