Ansible tags are a code smell

site.yml

---
- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    ansible_connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: demo an untagged task
      debug:
        msg: I am an untagged task

    - name: demo a normal tagged task
      debug:
        msg: I am a tagged task
      tags:
        - normal

    - name: demo a never-tagged task
      debug:
        msg: I am a never-tagged task
      tags:
        - never
        - run-never
    
    - name: demo an always-tagged task
      debug:
        msg: I am an always-tagged task
      tags:
        - always
        - exclude-always

Invocation	Untagged	Normal	Never	Always
ansible-playbook	yes	yes	no	yes
ansible-playbook --tags run-never	no	no	yes	yes
ansible-playbook --tags untagged	yes	no	no	yes
ansible-playbook --tags all	yes	yes	no	yes
ansible-playbook --tags untagged,run-never	yes	no	yes	yes
ansible-playbook --tags all,run-never	yes	yes	yes	yes
ansible-playbook --skip-tags always	yes	yes	no	no
ansible-playbook --tags all,run-never --skip-tags always	yes	yes	yes	no