But I would note that spelling in English over the last 20 years has rapidly gotten more fluid, thanks perhaps to texting.
I don't think we'll ever overcome the damage the timing of the great vowel shift[1] did, but perhaps in 50 years time it might be somewhat improved.
[1] "English spelling was first becoming standardized in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Great Vowel Shift is responsible for the fact that English spellings now often strongly deviate in their representation of English pronunciations."
I always thought it was just so odd compared to its siblings, because it had lots of influences from the colonization phase, but that apparently was done beforehand already.
Since many technical roots derive from Latin, this somewhat artificially inflates the Romance root contribution to English.