DrunkDriver or at least remove the teal circle around it, it's not that important of a key.
grayway2 I don't like it too. Hopefully it will be removed in the next release.
I guess it should be an easy task to remove that circle around the emoji button, maybe for someone that wants to do a pull request for this.
vlad honestly, i wish the stock keyboard had proper dictionaries for other languages rather than this.
I guess it is hard to assemble proper dictionaries of likely text continuations for various languages. The stock keyboard has an option you can enable where it learns from your own typing behavior, and after just a few weeks, it is effectively as good as if it had built-in dictionaries. But built-in dictionaries would clearly be better from a privacy standpoint, in case someone gets access to your phone. Otherwise, approximate typing history is available for anyone with access to your phone to see, which can be pretty revealing, eg through what domain specific words you commonly use, or names you commonly type, and so on.