As silly as it sounds, emojis are surprisingly important in how people communicate. It's very hard for most folks to indicate emotions over text and emojis help support that. They've also been an effective way to communicate better across language barriers.

That was the case, at my previous workplace. We tried both Slack and Team but decided to go with Slack. We first started with Slack and found the custom emojis extremely useful, usually for indicating specific actions or status of a thread. Later on, when we had to decide between the two, most engineers and non-engineers wanted Slack.

Also I found the slack UI/UX to be far more pleasant and inviting and more fun than Teams. I don't know why, but something seems to be off in the UI/UX for Teams.

Getting Downvotes here, but I wonder, aren't custom emojis important to anyones communication culture out there? We use them to signify specific states of acceptance for MRs for instance among other things.

The question is: are you getting the down-votes for wanting emoji, or for the suggestion that you might want to move away from Slack?

Agreed.

Emojis allow us to convey way more information than any text(s) could, and in less key strokes.