Are you new to natural languages? They’re highly irregular. Appealing to speech to argue that writing should correspond is senseless, because look at the rest of the language! Look at the unpronounced letters, inconsistent spellings, irregular punctuation that exists only in writing: English writing isn’t English speech, doesn’t model it accurately, never has. They’re clearly distinct systems following different rules that only loosely relate such that writing doesn’t directly correspond to speech. Complex irregularities are common across natural languages, so it’s weird to pick 1 small irregularity across a whole ocean of them and claim oh yeah, this part needs to be consistent.

If breaking established conventions for written English is a ploy to draw attention, then mission accomplished I guess?