This is also quite common in some more synthetic languages, like most slavic ones for example. And the latin case is made muuuch more extreme due to the fact t

This is also quite common in some more synthetic languages, like most slavic ones for example. And the latin case is made muuuch more extreme due to the fact that we read poetry and stuff written in the yambic hexameter, which would have also been quite alien sounding to an average roman citizen on the street.