It seems like the Unicode Symposium has engaged in a massive employment program for itself with a mission that will continue into perpetuity. Obviously ASCII w

It seems like the Unicode Symposium has engaged in a massive employment program for itself with a mission that will continue into perpetuity. Obviously ASCII was insufficient as it only really had Latin characters. Providing a standard interchange for the world's languages is a noble goal. But then (IMHO) Unicode went completely off the rails by trying to create a code point for every imagine symbol, including emoji. And now I guess textile care symbols. All the while, it's missing (at least as of 2015) key characters in living languages [1], engaged in the highly controversial Han Unification [2] (interestingly, there are Latin/Cyrilic and other duplicates that there is no attempt to "unify" [3]) and implemented Unicode code point modifiers. Emoji, in particular, seems to be a huge mistake (IMHO). Like... it's going to be constantly changing. What's wrong with hierarchical approaches that we've used for things like DNS? Create a Unicode code point for "emoji" and then the next code point is a completely different standard. The goal of creating a code point for everything just seems... wrong. We already have >1M code points. In 100 years at this rate we're going to have 1B+ code points where 99.99% of them are never used. Why can't we just solve the problem of expressing written languages and keep the rest to a different space? [1]: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#:~:text=Han%20unification%20is%20an%20effort,single%20set%20of%20unified%20characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#:~:text=Han%20.... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_characters_in_Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_characters_in_Unicod...