Quoting Gunnar Hjalmarsson (2023-09-13 21:09:00)
There is a problem with fonts-noto-core, though, as several people
have mentioned already: For non-LCG scripts it provides one font
per script. And there are quite a few of those. So for a user, who
wants to actively and often select font in a font picker, the list
of font options gets horribly long.
Personally I see that as a shortcoming in the font pickers. They
ought to offer some "favorites" functionality, in the same manner
as it works with keyboard layouts. Unfortunately they don't, at
least as far as I know.
Perhaps it is then immature to switch to using fonts-noto by
default, for the above reason alone
So we have a conflict of goals here. The good news is that a user
who speaks some latin language, and who thinks it's important to be
able to easily select font directly in various applications, can
do:
apt purge fonts-noto-core
Just as easily as those disliking a font can remove it, those
appreciating a font can install it. Difference is if we want to
bloat all systems by default or not.