Although Kuan Chung-hsiang agrees that the acceptance of the term "Taike" brings with it a positive sense of individual liberation, he says that the institutional classism behind it still exists. That classism, along with rapid commercialization of the Taike culture, have kept the phenomenon from growing beyond a mere collection of superficial images into a meaningful discussion of class issues.
管中祥雖同意「台客」帶來了個人解放的樂觀氣氛，但社會上對中下階級的結構性歧視仍在，加上「台客」議題太快被商業化，使得所謂的「台客」現象，目前還是只集中各種淺薄的外貌形象上，而缺乏對階級文化的深刻探討。