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Dual-language site with no index on home page damaging SEO?

I just joined a new company and when I tried to run a technical site audit in SEMrush I discovered that there is a noindex tag on the home page - which obviously prevents the crawl I need.

The logic is that there are 2 languages are on the site, so .com is being 301'd to either .com/en or .com/fr

While I understand this, is the no index actually necessary? Wouldn't the hreflang tags be sufficient?

They have abysmal organic traffic, which has many causes, but I'm wondering if this is contributing... i.e. is it causing more damage than preventing me from running a site audit? I've never added a no index tag on a home page - it seems like a bad practice.

Any insights greatly appreciated!

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