Hi there, I recognize your points about taxonomies:
Please keep in mind that you need to write your website for your (potential) visitors, not for robots. Google also tries to be the best search/answer machine, and will, therefore, try to point users to quality content; taxonomies generally don’t fall into that category (pun not intended).
Some people use archive pages as valuable content, swagatam1975 mentioned above. Others, for whatever reason, may prefer the taxonomy pages be hidden or difficult to find. To that end, is there a setting in the SEO Framework plugin that will allow me to no-index archives, like I’ve done with the Yoast plugin? I’m interested in making the switch and I’m feeling out each of the features I use in Yoast currently.