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>they just don’t write it because mobile keyboards don’t have it as a separate letter for some reason
They've stopped writing it en mass even before smartphones became a thing. They've stopped doing this even before PC got popular in russia. This crap literally was a thing in say 80s and 90s when they had to write cursive by hand. And the rules/schools low-key permitted it, specifying that writing "ye" instead of "yo" is okay and "not a mistake" in cases where it's obvious that "yo" was implied and such other crap. However this "obvious" part is retarded as we'll demonstrate further.
>People will still pronounce it
Kinda. You don't understand that when they stop writing it in year and years it starts affecting pronunciation as well.
The best example I personally like is how a ton of foreign names, such as Röntgen and Göring, which historically were both spoken and written with "yo" in russian, as in "Ryontgen" and "Gyoring", changed their pronunciation with time. Since nobody bothered to write "yo" in its full form, instead relying on the implicit understanding that it's actually "yo" there despite everyone writing it as "ye", over time more and more people just read it as it was written and that became the norm. Thus now those names are spoken as "Ryentgen" and "Gyering".
And foreign names are not the only example, it's just that they get fucked the faster because the wording is less used on a day to day basis. But even common russian words get fucked, e.g. жёлчный (zhyolchniy), as in the adjective of gall (as in gall bladder) is very often spoken as жeлчный (zhyelchiy) because yes people were writing the world without a full ё and now like 50% of the russian population (if not more) think the incorrect form is correct. Same with пёcтpый (pyostriy), as in "motley", which more you regular ivan will easily pronounce as "pyestriy" instead, for the same reasons.
It happens with names of people, things, places and so on.
