The corn tortilla is not a preference — it is a different food

I have this conversation constantly so I am writing it down once clearly: a corn tortilla and a flour tortilla are not two versions of the same thing. They are different foods that happen to be round and flat. Corn tortilla: earthy, slightly toasted flavour from the nixtamal, less pliable, holds up to direct char, pairs with specific fillings where the corn flavour is complementary. Flour tortilla: more neutral, more pliable, better for very wet or very large fills, holds up to rolling and pressing in a way corn does not. For tacos specifically: corn tortilla is the traditional and in my view the correct choice because the char interacts with the filling in a way flour cannot replicate. Flour tortilla for a taco is a different taco — not better or worse, just different.