I am a newcomer to OSM but as a newcomer I do not see the so called "lack of concensus" as any kind of issue. People call things by different names and whereas it is of benefit to have concensus on the framework items I can see no issue regarding the use of locally accepted tags for items in general.
The problem is that it is almost impossible to write, and more importantly, keep up-to-date a data consumer (like a specialized map of shops, in the examples people have been talking about) in an anarchic free-for-all where tags come and go and people invent their own.
In effect the only data consumer that can reasonably makes sense of it all is a human reader (and even then, if is open to misinterpretation, as you are all saying, then them may also be unable to consume the data).
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