I'm afraid this explanation jumps through hoops as unjustifiable as 
those Tschichold used. Again conflating z and ezh, shifting characters 
about for no apparent reason, and papering over a complete lack of 
similarity in characters. Passing off a distorted 3 as an acceptable 
Romanized ezh is simply misleading.

I can understand a desire to link the modern form with the Fraktur form, 
but it simply isn't there in the design. To understand why 
long-s+short-s was regarded as a clean and satisfactory form you need to 
look at what printers were using *instead* of ß in Roman type in the 
late 19th century.

Dave

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Expansion: 'ẞ' LATIN CAPTIAL LETTER SHARP S (U+1E9E)
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