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by Analemma_ 11 days ago
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Approximately nobody thought Google’s current emoji family needed a total overhaul, stop breaking our pattern recognition for no reason other than your designers are bored and don’t have enough real work to do.
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> Approximately nobody thought Google’s current emoji family needed a total overhaul

According to who, a sample size of you?

I don't love their current emojis. The older, flat "blob" style was much better, and if I had my druthers we'd be getting a 3D remaster of those.

> stop breaking our pattern recognition

OS updates will come all the same, it's your job to select and enforce a style that you prefer. If not, your emojis will be like system fonts; outside of your control, changed at the whims of your OEM. And we all know that Apple and Google love breaking your muscle memory.

Google works as an organisation where you get promoted for redesigning stuff. Google will always endlessly redesign stuff and kill products and start new products because that's what it rewards.