Hiragana is super cute and very easy to learn. I can understand not liking kanji (although I think they're cool), but their written language would not function well without it. A lot of words would have to be converted into phrases because they're only used in written form and have too many homophones to be quickly distinguishable outside of the common contexts.
>>211678066There's history behind it. Kun'yomi readings are the main problem with Japanese written language, but their spoken language already existed before they imported Chinese writing system. A lot of new words were invented with on'yomi readings from Chinese hanzi, but why would they replace their oral language with a written language? It's not reasonable, so they allowed for using different readings and it became a very complicated system for foreigners, but for a native they already know the spoken language which makes it easier to remember all the readings.
>>211679255Their language would become far less efficient if they did that. They should decide for themselves what their language should be and they don't want to get rid of kanji.
