Is it allowed, according to the BEM methodology, not to assign BEM classes to some tags inside the layout, but to leave elements without classes at all?

Question

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Is it allowed, according to the BEM methodology, within the BEM layout not to assign BEM classes to some tags, but to leave elements without classes at all?

Example:

<ul class="menu__links">
   <li><a class="menu__link" href="#about">О нас</a></li>
   <li><a class="menu__link" href="#portfolio">Наши работы</a></li>
   ...
</ul>

Or the tag must also be assigned a class, although in fact I don’t need it in FIG.

Answer 1

Well, if you think logically: the element has a purpose, and since there is a purpose, there must be a class that describes this purpose. And if there is no assignment, then "what the hell is not needed" is not the class, but the element itself
https://ru.bem.info/methodology/solved-problems/

Answer 2

Of course, I'm not a "CSS tag curator", but according to BEM it is allowed for tags to have no classes.
Why do I think so?
1) The documentation does not say anywhere that each tag inside the block must have a class.
2) In the BEM context, "tag" !== "element".
For example, if there is an "element" containing text content, there is no point in giving a class to a tag , and even to a tag if its appearance suits you. 3) Yandex itself (the creator of BEM) quietly leaves tags without classes. An example on this page https://yandex.ru/dev/maps/mapsapi/ If you look at the code, you can see that paragraphs, links, lists, "highlighted" text do not have classes. If the creators themselves do this, then you can too :) <strong><p>