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    More specifically, what bad effects could be caused by treating
    FOO.EL on Unix and GNU systems as an Emacs Lisp file for the purposes
    of etags?

In the case of .EL, probably no harm.
There are some situations where case matters, though:
foo.c is a C file, whereas FOO.C is a C++ file.