Dang, you're right. Sorry about that. I remembered that reactions irked me for some reason, but I had incorrectly tied it to the MS acquisition. The real issue

Dang, you're right. Sorry about that. I remembered that reactions irked me for some reason, but I had incorrectly tied it to the MS acquisition. The real issue was this: it took Github an extremely long amount of time to add a feature as simple as reactions. Github was founded in '08, and didn't add reactions for another eight years! But I distinctly remember once MS acquired them, they started shipping features left and right, and features much larger than simple emoji reactions.