This is a top quality post! Just came to add that in a vacuum, every language seems insane: - Most European languages have genders attached to every noun, you

This is a top quality post! Just came to add that in a vacuum, every language seems insane: - Most European languages have genders attached to every noun, you have to memorize them. French/Spanish/Italian has 2, Russian and German has 3 - every Chinese word has one of 4 tones (for mandarin, good luck if you want to learn a dialect) you also have to memorize these - in European languages you have verb conjugation and some languages also have declension which is foreign to other languages. That said, there seems to be a lot of implicit logic where most native speakers get by with a combination of rote memory and also some heuristics which capture most cases well enough.