To me it looks indeed as if we after decades on computers are still grappling with two of its most fundamental tools, text input and text rendering. As Exhibit

To me it looks indeed as if we after decades on computers are still grappling with two of its most fundamental tools, text input and text rendering. As Exhibit A I offer the almost unusable and bordering obsolete state of affairs around xmodmap &cpp on Linux; as Exhibit B, the soul crushing complexity yet utter failure that is fontconfig, and the community's denial of these two facts.