Never underestimate the power of colour on a terminal.
Back when I was first becoming an adminsys, colour in the terminal was pretty rare. Emoji's certainly didn't exist even as a concept in the west at that point either.
However, a senior sysadmin on my team said "when you're writing your management scripts, remember to add colour codes if things are good or if they are not good. Managers freaking love that". He was incredibly right, and though the development team avoided colour codes (they can mess with things like stdout redirection) the admin team leaned into them- and the managers lapped it up like crazy.
"Red bad" is a universal language in our culture, and it makes managers feel like they understand, I guess.
We were once warned that the TV was comming to make some interviews with the bosses. I though it will be funny to pipe a nginx access log slowly (5 lines per second or so) through a coloring log program, and leave it running, to show in the background.
I left the room because I didn't want to be on camera, and in no time they were recording in front of my screen because it looked "cool, busy and profesional".
Even worse -
My part of project just did a release of new functionality making things much quicker. Others just did a change of the screen colours making no difference and got massive praise for their work.
Back when I was first becoming an adminsys, colour in the terminal was pretty rare. Emoji's certainly didn't exist even as a concept in the west at that point either.
However, a senior sysadmin on my team said "when you're writing your management scripts, remember to add colour codes if things are good or if they are not good. Managers freaking love that". He was incredibly right, and though the development team avoided colour codes (they can mess with things like stdout redirection) the admin team leaned into them- and the managers lapped it up like crazy.
"Red bad" is a universal language in our culture, and it makes managers feel like they understand, I guess.