These are the kinds of thoughts I could only expect from someone who only encounters bad semiotic practice. Rather than "killing the icon," he should be focused

These are the kinds of thoughts I could only expect from someone who only encounters bad semiotic practice. Rather than "killing the icon," he should be focused on educating people about the main categorizations of signs and enforcing icon designers to make good use of indexical and iconic signs, rather than coming up with unrelated symbols that users have to learn through trial and error or type-based assistance.