extrangerius

Phrasal verbs can often feel weird and arbitrary.

Many of them are more or less intuitive:

• Put down
• Put in
• Put on

But then there’s:

• Put up (with)
• Put out
• Put off

Putting out the fire is pretty strange taken literally. Out where?

The fact that they’re the exact opposites of the above doesn’t help.

It seems to me that you’re making a strange argument throwing bugs and features into the same pot. The fact that other languages have different complexities does not make one language more or less broken.