How do emoji insertion workflows look on KDE Plasma?

From my searches in ask.LO.org and the bug tracker, on KDE, you press Super+. which opens the emoji picker window, then you click on an emoji to copy it to the clipboard, then paste into the doc. This seems very round about and exhausting especially when you have a lot of emoji to work with. Am I missing a better way to do this where I can directly insert emoji?

I know there are replacement tables that I can use for this, but having the ability to search for an emoji and insert it in the document will be easier for me.

Emojis in Writer

The issue about B&W seems solved now.
Bug 104403 - Support multi-colored fonts using COLR/CPAL tables