Honestly, a lot of it also comes down to emojis as a concept just being overall not well thought-out. I recently complained about how they're handled in software, too.
What we need are two things:
- Emoji variations that are selected depending on the background. This would fix many design issues.
- An API to enumerate emojis so that software devs don't need to reinvent the same thing over and over and over again. Applications only need to ship their own emojis because they can't detect if an emoji is available or not. It wouldn't look good if there were Unicode character placeholders in the picker.
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