What happened with ignored tags?
The design change summary here lists
Ignored: the opacity was removed, the text was lightened, and the answer count was updated
This change was reported as a problem, as questions with ignored tags now mostly blended into the list of other questions:
Ignored tags no longer gray out the questions
The answer then says that an additional change was shipped on 2022-09-13 that made everything in the post greyscale. Most notably, the tags themselves would have a grey background. This change is not mentioned in the text I quoted, yet it is demonstrated in the screenshot slightly further down:
I can confirm the change was live that at least made an attempt to make questions with ignored tags easier to ignore (yet maybe not easy enough)
As of writing this (2022-09-16) it seems the fix talked about in the answer has been reverted.
The announcement here only talks about the initial change. What happened with the fix? Are there any plans of fixing ignored tags even more, so they are easier to visually distinguish? Is that not a direction that is going to be considered?
Follow up: High contrast dark mode tags now blend into the background