I Can Text You a Pile of Poo, but I Can’t Write My Name

The overall frustration is understandable, I'm just not sure if there are any easy remedies, especially if the metric for success is assigning a code point to every grapheme that some group considers sufficiently distinctive. Having a more diverse leadership might help, as the author suggests. But his anecdotes aren't convincing. I'd like to see a more comprehensive critique of the diversity of the leadership, particularly regarding their credentials and experience.

English readers would never accept a Greco Unification because English orthography _already_ went through tremendous simplification and unification at the behest of technological necessity, starting from the printing press but especially since the advent of computers. European languages generally are far along that path. Excepting the Western/Cyrillic divide, the European languages he described are already substantially unified, which he perhaps unwittingly takes for granted. To some extent the author is merely experiencing what European authors began experiencing long ago; namely, yet another culture clash with modernity.

Which isn't to say that European orthography isn't privileged. Just that the scope of that privilege can be more difficult to determine than one would think given the current state of affairs. To some extent European orthography might seem privileged because it was already drastically simplified and already underwent significant unification. Yes, there are many one-off esoteric European glyphs, but you can't judge how "privileged" that is without accounting for all the orthography discarded and abandoned, even in the past century.

Also, it's worth realizing that the Unicode project is literally destined to fail in the sense that languages and meaning are constantly changing. Unicode will always struggle with the inherent limitations of the goal. Arguably non-syllabic scripts are especially difficult to deal with in this manner. We should be careful not to equivocate written languages. English is, frankly, much easier to accommodate than many other languages, especially considering how English accommodated to technology.

Finally, it's worth pointing out that emojis were originally a Japanese phenomenon. More specifically (lest people think I forgot about the long history of ASCII emoji), AFAIU Unicode began accepting emojis at the behest of Japanese companies, and the first groups of glyphs were from Japan. Understanding why they first evolved in Japan might actually go a long way to addressing some of the author's questions and criticisms.