@sashabilton @jwildeboer All modern OSes and browsers can render the new logo out of the box. That's certainly helpful when millions of websites and apps need to replace the bird and Musk will want that to happen as quickly as possible. If the whole UIX world needs to wait for all those icon set designers to replace the logo it could take months. Now web devs can just use the Unicode.
Since Musk cares for the new logo as much as the old logo, this way the transition at least less of a hassle.