It's only when two highly-prized priorities are pitted against each other that you can really determine which is higher up on the priority list. I guess now we know. Hating on the outgroup is a strong trait amongst humans, perhaps even stronger than font snobbery.
Does the world really need yet another font with a purely rectangular lowercase 'l'? There. I guess you can see where my priorities lie.
It's a shame, because I thought font snobbery might encourage some interesting discussion here.
But on your second point -- there are two lowercase "l" glyphs, of which the default option is not purely rectangular. Without any stylistic set activated, "1Iil" are all visually distinct.
Does the world really need yet another font with a purely rectangular lowercase 'l'? There. I guess you can see where my priorities lie.