[umanwizard]

> but because language tends to lose all its excess features as it gets spoken and a LOT of people speak English.

Citation needed - this sounds like pop linguistics without a scientific basis, to be honest.

English has plenty of “features”; what it lacks in morphology it makes up for in very complicated syntax. And it lost those morphological features well before the British colonial period, so it’s not really true that more people spoke it than, say, the Slavic languages which haven’t lost them.