I’ve already pointed out the examples of snowflake, poop emoji, genie emoji, and so on, they don’t look the same without the EF0F. Also you saying that browsers anyway show the same thing doesn’t make sense. Why must we care which medium shows what when we know removing EF0F does create some difference to a selected few.
The right move would have been to strip off the already registered non EF0F ones since not incl EF0F in some - like snowflake, makes it a wrong decision. But ofc we shouldn’t break previously registered emojis.
All we can do is correct it here on and reduce the cost.
And yes, wrongly normalised is the right word to describe that else we won’t have the snowflake issue.