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Eh, I feel like we would've adopted our own style by now. For example, this face ^^ was fairly popular in the German internet before mobile phones and emojis took over, because it's just two key presses on the German keyboard.
I think, the main problem is simply that umlauts look like letters to us. If someone types a random Ü or Ö after their sentence, you might think they meant to write another sentence. Or you simply do not register that it's supposed to resemble a face, because it's just a letter in your mind. Much like you presumably don't either look at an E and think that it looks like a rake, because the association with the letter is much stronger.