Depends on what you consider a "list" question.
The reason list questions are usually frowned on isn't due to some mythical "list" qualities, but because many list questions have properties that make them inappropriate for SE format.
Some produce many answers none of which is "correcter" than another.
Some can't even produce a canonical answer since you can always add to a list
Some simply have list so big as to be outside the scope of SE post.
Some duplicate existing lists (Wikipedia, TVTropes, whatnot).
As such, we should not ban questions for being "list" per se, but instead allow/disallow based on whether they are good fit for se. As such:
If a list is designed to be compact, end-ful (easy to exaust) and unlikely to attract a slew of extra "oh! Add this to the list" answers, it should be on-topic.
"Who are all the mortals who successfully journeyed to and from Hades?" (I expect the list to be pretty short)
"Who were all the mortal women who consensually had romantic affiliation with Zeus?" (I'm expecting the answer to this one to be an empty set. If I'm wrong in the size, this is a bad example)
If a list is the opposite (endless possible valid answers, none of which is more "correct" than another) it should be off-topic.
If a list is easily research-able somewhere, even if it's on-topic it should be down-voted harshly as lacking research effort ("What are all the 12 heroic deeds performed by Heracles?")
A required feature is clarity of criteria - if you have to argue extensively whether many items do or don't belong on the list, it wasn't a good question.