I think you may be in the vast minority here. People born after 1990 grew up using emoji and most keyboards show your top ~25 most used emojis, floated to the top, and keyboards offer search function, this was a largely solved problem by 2014, over a decade ago.
Ah. I see. I replace the virtual keyboad on Android with something else instantly, to get rid of autocorrect and other anti-features. Probably doing that I lose my chance to appreciate the ways of people born after 1990.
Nobody is writing papers or webpages on mobile virtual keyboards (I hope).