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.
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 :)