Tantalum may have improved lately, but they used to have a bad rep for failing in exothermic fashion.
Not much reason to use them for what we do, ceramic goes 100+ uF for surprisingly cheap.
Ceramic is difficult to beat where low ESR/ESL or high ripple-current tolerance is required. For bypass/decoupling (like on the FET drivers) ceramic X7R/X5R is good. For low-value precision work ceramic C0G/NP0 is the way to go.
Nice table at the end of this PDF: