I’m not sure what your point is here. Excluding visually ambiguous characters from randomised strings that are going to be manually entered is very common, very trivial, and does not compromise “beauty”.
It sounds like were you working on this project you would’ve unnecessarily compromised. And given that you’re seeking to make some generalised point about “UX designers”, it honestly sounds like you both undervalue UX design (since you’re looking for the first opportunity to dismiss design in an instance where the real issue is that ambiguous characters are being used in the first place), and don’t understand the bounds of UX design as a skill set (because any good, and note that I’m not saying “very good”, UX designer, will consider exactly what you said).
Sorry that you used a crappy website but I don’t think it’s justification to generalise a profession.
And, for the record, I’ve never been as much as a front end developer, let alone a designer. My speciality is certainly much more under the hood than that. I’m just…aware that those people do good, important work.
Typography is a bit of a thankless profession. If you do a good job, nobody notices because your job is to make type unnoticeable. It's only when someone messes up that you suddenly notice the type and start thinking about it.
Unfortunately that means you're more likely to think that typographers don't know what they're doing (whatever the application); it's the only type you really looked at.
It sounds like were you working on this project you would’ve unnecessarily compromised. And given that you’re seeking to make some generalised point about “UX designers”, it honestly sounds like you both undervalue UX design (since you’re looking for the first opportunity to dismiss design in an instance where the real issue is that ambiguous characters are being used in the first place), and don’t understand the bounds of UX design as a skill set (because any good, and note that I’m not saying “very good”, UX designer, will consider exactly what you said).
Sorry that you used a crappy website but I don’t think it’s justification to generalise a profession.
And, for the record, I’ve never been as much as a front end developer, let alone a designer. My speciality is certainly much more under the hood than that. I’m just…aware that those people do good, important work.