As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to get all of the tagged instances that are descendants of an object. Adding a second argument, ancestor, to CollectionService:GetTagged would make this process easier. What it would do is return only instances that are descendants of the ancestor object.
Example:
CollectionService:GetTagged("Tree", workspace.Decoration)
--> returns all descendants of workspace.Decoration with the tag "Tree"
CollectionService:GetTagged("Tree")
--> returns all instances with the tag "Tree"
My reason for this is that if there are thousands or even tens of thousands of instances with a tag, calling Instance:IsDescendantOf(ancestor)
on every instance in the returned table could be costly, as well as adding a few more lines to my code each time I have to do this.
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because I could get all tagged instances that are descendants of an object easier and faster.
Alternative solution:
Add this feature request instead, and add a function, Instance:GetTagged(tag)
, which could act just like CollectionService:GetTagged except that it only returns descendants of itself.