It depends on the conversation. In a fast-moving conversation with a dozen people the emotes make it possible to "read the room" and avoid 10 people saying the

It depends on the conversation. In a fast-moving conversation with a dozen people the emotes make it possible to "read the room" and avoid 10 people saying the same thing and drowning the channel in noise. The "who is answering who" makes it possible to have sidebar conversations without anyone losing the main thread. Some conversations are too big to read every message, but those features also make it possible to reduce the size of the conversation without any loss in information.