Conspiracy theory: 1. specification authors want to make sure the extended grapheme cluster algorithms are widely adopted so that implementations can correctly

Conspiracy theory: 1. specification authors want to make sure the extended grapheme cluster algorithms are widely adopted so that implementations can correctly deal with devanagari 2. they notice no one gives a shit about brown people and their writing systems 3. combining emojis requiring the use of the same underlying algorithms were popularised in order to push the adoption