I think read receipts may be a better solution for what most people seem to use the reaction buttons for. Then again, I don't really care either way. I can see the value of email reactions, but that does require clients to build in support for the standard.
The text fallback also isn't great, I'd much rather they'd sendan email with nothing but the emoji than "person X reacted to your message". I suppose this is more corporate-compliant?
The problem with read receipts is that (1) it’s useful for spammers to see that their email went through, and (2) I don’t want to automatically share with people when I read the email or instant message, so i would turn off the feature even if spam wasn’t an issue.
You prefer an automatically generated read receipt that basically means "this person clicked somewhere in their client, it happened to open the email, maybe they read it, maybe it was an accident" to "this person read your email and consciously decided to acknowledge it and chose a particular 'reaction' to hint at what they mean"? Really?
The text fallback also isn't great, I'd much rather they'd sendan email with nothing but the emoji than "person X reacted to your message". I suppose this is more corporate-compliant?