@jookia @_lunawinters The text ones are faster, I tend to use them more when writing letters (in the nice Slowly app for penpals) since it's fast and doesn't break the flow of writing.
Sometimes I would go and sprinkle a few emoji, maybe even replacing the earlier placed text ones. But that was for the most special, closest friends, otherwise I would just send and go on to another reply.
Here the delay to find an emoji is not too bad, on twitter it takes ages to load.