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I have a limit I can tolerate, one emoji every other sentence.
I don't use them in emails myself, but react emojis to internal work messages are fairly commonplace. A π next to a message is often just a good way to know someone has confirmed reading something rather than needing to write "okay" which is ambiguous (what are you saying okay to?) and takes up space.
But I use a different range of emojis with different people when I do use them, to taste. With colleagues it's one of πππ ππ―β€οΈππ, with friends it's probably one of π€£π€©ππ€ππ§ππ€―π₯΄ππππ¨ or π.
I totally use ππππ€ππ¬ with my team where appropriate, π―π₯ππ€π also get used (with like every other emoji you listed) by the entire department all the time, usually as reactions to messages, reaction gifs are also pretty common. Similar thing to π beside a message, just extra descriptive. Client conversations are limited usually to just π reactions. They're great for symbolic indicators in reporting too.
I like how much extra information emojis bring, definitely used emoticons and the like for that in the past so it's just a continuation of that to me (I still use emoticons from time to time, ellipsis too) tone is often lost in text otherwise.
Using them to create tone and context is very helpful.
An example of where it's excessive to me is Martin Wimpress' Ubuntu MATE blog, like I know what a paper cut is, the emojis don't add anything and are more of a nuisance to read. I think Martin has toned it down in his more recent posts.
There was a legal case in Eastern Canada a short while ago that ruled "π" is legally binding as an affirmative in terms of a verbal contract.
"Do you agree to XYZ?"
"π"
I mean, does anyone really consider this not an affirmation? You should only use it as a reply to statements, e.g. "I will arrive a couple minutes later today."
In this case it was more of a miscommunication. IIRC they used βπβ to say, "Yes, I received your text. Hold on a moment while I prepare things". Something like that... I think that emoji cost the guy something like three-million dollars.