User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Introducing Global Taxonomy/@comment-5392588-20191121070718/@comment-24006128-20191121141607

The article doesn't basically promise to "recycle fan feed feature that nobody here likes", it literally promises that :)

We're taking a feature people have long criticized as irrelevant to their interests and using the Global Taxonomy data to make it more relevant as part of the pilot program.

By reusing Fan Feed to surface this experience, we save a lot of time for our engineering teams which can be spent on delivering the Unified Community Platform and 7 years of MediaWiki improvements along with it.

The pilot program will allow us to figure out how a standalone feature for wiki recommendations should behave and best provide value to our users.