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>It's not arbitrary when it becomes increasingly difficult for other romance speakers to understand each other's written language.
Why should we care about that? And it's really easy to make transformations like ph->f, ll->l, cç->ç in your head

>>Ele xtava trancuilu, max foi agilmente em diresão à farmácia dela.
You can't write like that because a lot of Portuguese speakers don't speak like this

>You can't have it both ways, that is the arbitrary option because there is no logic to what should reflect speech 100% and what should keep etymological relatable.
The answer to that is very simple. We have to hold the language to a standard common to all people speaking the different dialects of that language. The most obvious way to do that would be to prefer the spelling used before dialects diverged, modifying it when it's necessary to reflect global changes. If you do this you will respect the inner etymological rules of the language but it will imply in modifying loan words and therefore "disrespecting" the etymology of foreign words.