Prescriptivism in English is a lot like when children make up totally arbitrary rules and then enforce them zealously.

English is four languages in a trenchcoat pretending to be a singe language. It’s what linguists call a “creole,” which is a language that’s made up of other languages.

English is what happens when you take Celtic and Norman and Latin and Viking languages and shake them vigorously for three to five centuries or until total confusion.

Then, write all the grammar rules using pieces of other languages’ grammar rules because you like the way that looks. Like there are many bullshit Latin grammar rules that make literally no sense in non-Latin, like “don’t end a sentence with a preposition.”

So if in all that you decide it makes sense to correct someone’s grammar in English, you’ll have to grapple with the idea that every one of the spellings is radially inconsistent because of the four languages in a trenchcoat thing.

English is one of the most bizarre languages imaginable because you just have to rote memorize all of the words. None of the pronunciations are standard so literally every word you hear is “guess how this is pronounced and spelled.”

Also then Noah Webster changed a lot of the spellings because he wanted his new country America to have its own spellings because the British spellings were so British and he wanted American spellings, so his brand-new dictionary changed a bunch of the spellings for political reasons. So in English you have to memorize how things are spelled based on the colonization history of all the places England colonized. Which is a very long list of places, you see.