[euske]

Unicode doesn't solve the underlying complexity of human languages, as you noted. I think the main contribution of Unicode Consortium is that they brought all the nitty-gritty problems of human languages into one central repository and made them visible to everyone. That itself is an awesome effort, and I personally had a lot of benefit from it (my native language is Japanese). But that doesn't make Unicode as a standard "awesome". Maybe we should be thankful for how messy it is? That's more or less a view that I can agree with.