Comment by lifthrasiir

> The family emojis seemed cool in someone's head, but then someone tried to make a family with mixed-ethnic parents and the children are locked to one skin color; the only solution presented was to add 7,000 more emojis to Unicode.

Funnily enough, that "someone" is the entire Emoji subcommittee under the Unicode consortium, and pretty much everyone in the consortium represents some vendor company. The solution was proposed mainly because they can be technically composed via far less than 7,000 glyphs and several vendors did implement that as an experiment; ultimately the industry didn't bother, so it was scrapped.