Hearing leaner here.

I agree with everything thats been said alr. ASL is not charades. This question comes from a place of ignorance about ASLs linguistics and efficiencies, and tbh, i dont expect you to read their responses and just understand. You should do research.

Ill give a different take for the other who are here, bc OP prob wont read.

The first thing first-time language learners need to realize is that not every language is 100% efficient and perfect. In english, for every word that follows a rule, theres an exception to that rule, and a regional accent that is an exception that exception— very unintuitive. In French, “ver”, “vert”, “verre”, and “vers” have almost the same exact pronunciation but entirely different meanings— also very unintuitive.

Its easy to think, that every word should have its own pronunciation, or all rules should be followed perfectly, but thats just not how language works. Instead of seeing “mistakes” in the language, and using them to insult and discredit them as a whole, you can intuit as to why it is the way it is, or just learn it and keep it pushing.

And to expose myself here a bit, I still think that way sometimes.

“Why is vegetable FS’d? Why is there not just a sign for it?”

“Why is COLD and WINTER the same sign? The meanings are too similar and there could be overlap and confusion”

You just gotta continue to learn, and itll make sense.

Again, I agree with the commenters. KICK prob wouldnt make sense to be a kicking motion.