Not because of colonialism, but English of all modern languages is one of the easiest, most regular, simpliest. Best reformed. Languages turn itself into more

Not because of colonialism, but English of all modern languages is one of the easiest, most regular, simpliest. Best reformed. Languages turn itself into more similar forms automatically, but many resist for political and traditional reasons. Eg for English we had 2 major reforms before, the 1st and 2nd German Lautverschiebung, with English being the culmination. Simplier tenses, articles, plural forms, harmonized verbs, ... Much less exceptions than in German. Even simplier would have only been the Hangul reform, modern Korean, which would be one of the easiest to learn new languages. For Aliens, visiting from other galaxies. But for people on earth English being the lingua franca makes perfect sense. Compared to Spanish, French, German, Russian or Mandarin. Well, Mandarin would be even more extremely natural and modern, but unfortunately only the spoken language, not it's written form, the Han kanji. That's the complete opposite.