All of those languages went through a deliberate reform where the language academy said "this is how we spell things from now on." English didn't really have th

All of those languages went through a deliberate reform where the language academy said "this is how we spell things from now on." English didn't really have that, but a bunch of dictionary writers did make changes that have stuck. In the US we can credit Noah Webster for having us drop the unpronounced "u" in "colour" or write "centre" with the kind-of-metathesis spelled out.