No Taproot

Currently Taproot is not active on Bitcoin and there is no deployment planned for it.

Sapio scripts can become very large in size, and would greatly benefit from being able to split up and merkelize the logic into smaller satisfiable chunks. This makes it economical to use Sapio.

The compiler is currently relatively naive about this, and unknown (or worse, unchecked) errors might occur as a result of pushing these limits. Hopefully, rust-miniscript should catch such errors, but a malicious actor might be able to trigger an unknown unsatisfiable script.

As such, Sapio is probably ill-advisable to use at writing, but this will hopefully change in the future.

Emulation?

In theory, Taproot could also be emulated in a similar manner to CTV. You would run a server that would send a replacement key to use instead of the Taproot key, and then the emulator would sign off on the transaction if the user could provide a satisfaction.

Fortunately, it does seem that Taproot will be active within the next year, so such measures are not yet required.

Taproot Optimizations

With Taproot comes the opportunity to Huffman Code spending paths to decrease fees even further. Sapio currently uses rust-miniscript Policy language to generate spending conditions, so Sapio should be able to carry metadata from the programmer about the likelihood of various paths being taken, but this currently only is used within a script as opposed to the Tapscript tree itself.