Adults don’t have to go that route though. I learned all the kanji from daily use through college level (some 3,500 or so) in a few months of study. You might a

Adults don’t have to go that route though. I learned all the kanji from daily use through college level (some 3,500 or so) in a few months of study. You might as well point to the massive number of root vocabulary English has and make the same argument that English would be crazy difficult to learn (and you’d be equally right).