I understand it a little better now, although I’ve forgotten the original context of my issue
The getResourcesTag is an ’extender’ snippet for TagLister that is specifically designed to be used with getResources (but in tru MODx style it could _in theory_ be used by other snippets/plugins, hence the first two parts of the call, which tell it to use getResources, which is a snippet).
The same methodology is used for getPage, to paginate result sets in a getResources call.
Instead of listing all the properties in a call each time, you can save them as a distinct property set (to reuse). Presumably the @BlogList property set disappeared in development (or wasn’t documented and you’d have to manually recreate it).
There’s a similar-ish thing with Wayfinder, where there is a folder full of configs that ships with the package but it’s not mentioned anywhere that I can see - and can presumably be called with the property &config= and matching one of the config sets in the folder (which I think is a file-based way of doing property sets - but someone will correct me if I’m wrong).