In German, it’s possible to write out umlaut as ae=ä, oe=ö, ue=ü, etc but in everyday use, we don’t type this way.
French and other European languages use even more “accents” so there’s a need for a better implementation of accents in Obsidian.
I think it’s “fun” and interesting to implement new features in Obsidian, still sometimes it wouldn’t hurt to roll out only bug fixes and optimizations for a longer period of time and effectively stop to add something new. Obsidian has numerous nice features which could be made more useful like the canvas, slides, graph, better mermaid implementation, a new lib for code syntax highlight, a better switch from live view to preview view and more. But I digress.
Since I use multiple languages every day, my documents use multiple languages as well, which use all kind of accents. A better support for accents is really needed.