It made total sense to include emojis in Unicode initially. And a great idea to put them outside the 16-bit plane, so platforms would be forced to support char

It made total sense to include emojis in Unicode initially. And a great idea to put them outside the 16-bit plane, so platforms would be forced to support characters beyond the BMP because of the public demand for emojis. But I think going forward, emojis should be handled outside of Unicode. They are really small illustrations rather than characters or symbols.