[johnwalkr]

You may see the merit of it in a year or so. Spelling and pronunciation is unambiguous (at least for kana where there’s no chance to misread). It’s really hard to read pure kana because you have to process a lot of homophones although I guess that’s surmountable because it mostly works for spoken language. You do however see even native speakers explain which word they mean by signing the kanji, from time to time. And it’s a nice feature to see a new word for the first time and know how to read it (you can guess based on the radicals pretty accurately) and an approximation of its meaning.

Absolute peak language for puns and dad jokes, too.

[yorwba]

> Spelling and pronunciation is unambiguous (at least for kana where there’s no chance to misread).

Even kana have exceptions where spelling and pronunciation are ambiguous. E.g. は/へ, which canonically represent [ha̠]/[he̞] but are also used for particles pronounced [ɰᵝa̠]/[e̞], which would usually be written わ/え. And こうし pronounced either [ko̞ːɕi] when it means 格子 (grid) or [ko̞ɯ̟ᵝɕi] when it means 子牛 (calf). Then there are aspects of the pronunciation like pitch accent and devoiced vowels that can't be expressed using kana at all...