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You sound like you consider all linguistic evolution to be a bad thing. I'm not saying there shouldn't be opposition to change, indeed opposition helps to filter out pointless change, while worthwhile change will tend to overcome that opposition. So go ahead and be that opposition if you will, but it just seems like a limited perspective to me.
It reminds me of my English teachers at school who impressed upon me that it's incorrect to use the pronouns "they/them" in a singular, non-gender-specific context. So you had to go with the traditional but sexist "he" or an awkwardly pseudo-random distribution of "he" and "she", despite the fact that "they" was in common use colloquially. Perhaps my teachers' fervent opposition was only fueled by the fact that it was a language problem which popular usage had already solved. They were fighting a valiant rearguard action against common sense, and I'm glad they lost.