Matt, I hear you, but for me, it's still not ideal.
ideally, I would like to have access to a large image preview, be able to tag it, move on to the next image, tag it, etc. etc.
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So, I have my 'to be tagged' images listed, my choice panes on show and the tag window open...
I double click to see large, and again to go back to the list.
Now, the AW display window has stolen focus from the tag window, the display is now showing images instead of my chosen output, and if I'm in split views, I often find my image list view has also lost focus. I reset all that and tag the image.
Now for the next image... repeat all of the above.
I can see that might work for an image, or an image there, but when trying to tag hundreds of images, it gets old quite quickly.
I kind of figured that this was not up for discussion anymore, so I piled all my chips in Doof's corner.
Have you seen captionator? A view like that, coupled with the tag window would be nigh on perfect.