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Lovely quality. I celebrate that. Ligatures are a deal breaker for me tho.

With centuries of use cases, we crafted an alphabet that abstracted phonemes, one per symbol, in a carefully isolated, unambiguous and successful way. Ligatures come and with a stroke of design creativity inject ambiguity and de-standardisation where those problems were previously carefully solved.

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I dislike them too, but they can be disabled. This makes them ‘good’ for remote pair with something like upterm so two users that disagree on the subject can have it their way. Inappropriate usage is rampant making presentations & in-person pairing way more difficult/unclear (luckily userStyles can be used to prevent it in the browser). What we need is languages to stop clinging to US keyboards as a limiter where => doesn’t need to be misunderstood as ⇒ or ≥.

Ligatures overcome the typographic limitations we've had since ASCII came along. For example -> became a convention because we didn't have a way to write → easily. Now we do.

Is not standard and, as I said, creates ambiguity and additional cognitive load for a weak reason.

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