Or even with words. "yes" and "no" are much easier to distinguish at a glance than thumbs-up-emoji and thumbs-down-emoji.

I considered both. The issue I'm having is that "yes" and "no" is semantically wrong - or rather, semantically uninteresting. The interesting question is if a particular mechanism is "good" or "bad" in a particular way. For "boilerplate types", a "yes" is bad. For "custom order", a "yes" is good.

Writing "yes" or "no" (or using checkmarks and crosses) means I either have to put it on the reader to do that extra step of inference. Or that I have to re-phrase every item to be aligned in this way, while staying snappy. Or I could write "good" and "bad", of course, which seemed… overly simplistic.

Anyways, I did think about all of this and it was a conscious decision. For better or for worse. And I'm okay with it, criticism notwithstanding :)

Hmm wow, it was incomprehensible to me that much thought went into it to end up with a grid of yellow indecipherable blobs. Green and red are much more representative than thumbs up/down if the symbols look the same. How about green thumbs up and red thumbs down?

Even though you are being snarky and intentionally obnoxious: I even thought about that, yes. If unicode would allow to use red and green as skin tone modifiers, I would've done it. Except I probably wouldn't have used red and green, but red and blue or something. Because color blindness is a thing.

Look, I accept the criticism that the table is a bit hard to read. I thought about it and it's still the way I like it best. And it's the most low-stakes thing possible. It doesn't matter if it is slightly hard to read. It's my personal blog. "I like it best this way" is enough said.