Well, for example Ken Whistler wrote in http://www.unicode.org/faq/normalization.html:I don't see any basis for saying "now generally considered misguided". Some people don't like them. Some of the reasons given were based on a misunderstanding.
Jony
In retrospect, it would have been possible to have assigned combining classes for certain Arabic and Hebrew non-spacing marks (plus characters for a few other scripts) that would have done a better job of making a canonically ordered sequence reflect linguistic order or traditional spelling orders for such sequences.
And this is quite apart from the much discussed issued of multiple vowel points in certain Hebrew words. The proposed solution with CGJ is generally considered a bit of a kludge, even by you. Some, not all, of the reasons may be based on a slightly different understanding of the situation from your rather unique one.
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