[gwervc]

> this one falls for a very very common fallacy - spelling makes more sense when it "maps" to "pronunciation"

True. It's no wonder that many alphabetical writing systems are morpho-phonologic (English, French, Korean, Czech, etc.) instead if being phonetic, since they still works well evolving slower than the spoken language. Actually I can't think of any phonetic writing systems, most are phonemic at best.