stimw do you have an issue with the extension?
If you're asking why this isn't in Flarum, that's just because Flarum is kept as a minimal framework and extensions like this one are expected to provide more features.
This particular picker wouldn't make it into the Flarum Emoji extension either because it doesn't use the same emoji set as Flarum. I made a "native" picker for Flarum but it's still not released at this time, maybe soon.
