It looks like your "perfect multilingual console" here rubbed people the wrong way—the Arabic ligatures are a straightforward counterexample. You got something

It looks like your "perfect multilingual console" here rubbed people the wrong way—the Arabic ligatures are a straightforward counterexample. You got something that's helpful for working in a multilingual environment if you don't intend to read text in other languages but only to refer to it or recognize what it is. So I'd say that in a few cases that don't involve reading and writing or typography, this is potentially more useful, but it's important to be able to draw the distinction! For example, it's helpful for being able to say "the Arabic name for the Arabic language is spelled ة-ي-ب-ر-ع-ل-ا, alif-lam-ayn-ray-baa-yaa-taa marbuta". But if you want to have an Arabic speaker read it as a word, it ought to be written "العربية" (RTL with ligatures). Your terminal environment is good for the former but not the latter.