I'm still getting messages and seeing posts from people who are upset that some favorite on-camera performer was omitted from the Emmy Awards "In Memoriam" reel. And I still don't see anyone care about producers or writers or directors or behind-the-camera participants who were omitted.
What some folks don't seem to know is that they give out so many Emmy Awards each year now that they present them in three separate ceremonies so they make up three separate "In Memoriam" reels. Plus they also make up one that just lists names without pictures and it purports to list everyone…but I'll bet it doesn't. You can view all four of these videos — plus many from past years — on this page.
So if you're upset that a particular favorite of yours was not recognized, you perhaps should be complaining that they were in one of the non-televised ones or in the one that was just a list of names. That last one was where a lot of people I knew and/or worked with wound up. If you watch 'em all, you'll see that some people got in more than one of the montages with photos and that might also annoy you if your favorite didn't get a photo in any of them.
I have to admit that each year, I'm most interested in the (theoretically) "all-inclusive" list of names. Each year, I watch it and learn that a few people I knew passed away without me hearing about it. That's a helluva way to find out but it's better than nothing.
The exclusion of folks I knew does not bother me much because I've occasionally been involved with or even on committees at the TV Academy and I've seen how very few decisions are ever made by one person…or even one committee. That kind of structure can lead to a lot of democracy but it can also lead to certain things falling between the divisions between departments or committees.