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I thought the word and the definition sounded beautiful, but then I also learned that it was coined in 2017 and has been accused of imposing outside culture. Namely, here is a criticism I found on Twitter and Reddit but without further attribution or detail:
Just wanted to share and see what the community thought about it.
I find it hard to blame people for bad use of characters that they don't have on their keyboard layouts. I'm French speaking, I don't care if you're not putting an accent on "échelle" when writing to me in a casual conversation, I understand you mean "ladder" when you write "echelle".
Edit: Makes me think, I myself am often just working on something with the US layout at the same time as communicating in French, and not wanting to juggle between layouts, I just skip accents.
Thank you, I appreciate this as someone who speaks two languages of which neither has accents.
Edit: I'm sorry, you guys, I just realized my fucking native tongue has some rarely used accents. I am not a smart woman. And I agree that if someone omitted them, I would still understand what they meant.
Even English has a handful of words with accents. "Naïve" comes to mind. Of course, most people ignore those accents.
IIRC the diaeresis is actually optional and "naive" is actually okay too. Technically even "cooperative" initially took one on the second O.
It's all optional now, really. People also don't use æroplane as a spelling anymore either.
Fun fact, the "Académie française" (French language authority) dropped a bunch of accents with their "nouvelle grammaire". A notable example are words with a circumflex accent on the O, like "hôpital" or "hôpital". The accent was present to replace the "os" in the old spellings (hospital/hostel, the S was carried over from Latin), didn't change the pronunciation in any way.