So the reason to not include it is for gatekeeping? What's wrong with just having a casual interest instead of being serious about it? Perhaps interest would gr

So the reason to not include it is for gatekeeping? What's wrong with just having a casual interest instead of being serious about it? Perhaps interest would grow from learning a bit more, but an attitude about needing to be serious from the start hinders that. In particular, I think Romaji would help for those that have some interest in understanding spoken Japanese, but not really in understanding written Japanese (at least not yet).