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> Unicode has variant selectors which can deal with region variants (e.g. https://imgur.com/a/syMcWNO) to deal with the issue.

They're officially deprecated and cause issues with breaking search etc.. So they're still below feature parity with using a traditional encoding. Traditional encoding support is also easier to test since documents with traditional encodings are more widespread and exist for many world languages, not just Japanese.



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