Because you cannot look up a pictogram to divine its meaning. There are a million words in English. You can trivially look any of them up. > "pictograms were u

Because you cannot look up a pictogram to divine its meaning. There are a million words in English. You can trivially look any of them up. > "pictograms were used long ago so they are bad" Please don't put words in my mouth that I never wrote. Pictograms evolved into phonetic alphabets over and over in history, because phonetic alphabets are objectively better. Take a chapter from "Lord of the Rings" and redo it with pictograms. Good luck with that.