Yes!! I would so like to have a fontconfig option to just disable ligatures altogether, but afaik, one would have to enumerate ALL fonts that one would like to

Yes!! I would so like to have a fontconfig option to just disable ligatures altogether, but afaik, one would have to enumerate ALL fonts that one would like to disable them for in the config file - and that's not feasible. So I mostly live with it, and shake my fist in helpless anger whenever somethings f_cks up my otherwise beautifully monospaced flow with this most damned misfeature of digital typesetting.