I've grown accustomed to singular they, and I've actually joined a group of people for a week and using singular they was pretty common, and felt way more natur

I've grown accustomed to singular they, and I've actually joined a group of people for a week and using singular they was pretty common, and felt way more natural than what I expected. I guess this is a question of habit. Grammar is fine, and singular they would not be the only singular pronoun using the forms "are" and "were" for verb "to be": "you" also does. Though you are far from being alone to dislike it. You might be interested by RMS's take on this: https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html tl;dr: he argues that singular they feels wrong to him, and argues in favor of a gender neutral pronoun "pers", derived from "person". I like the idea, though I haven't seen it used anywhere and would not easily use it.