Plus learning hiragana/katakana is not hard to do in the slightest.
typically, learning a phonetic writing system is a lot easier to do than it seems
it's like "omg what does all this mean it's so scary :(" but really it's just a new abstraction of what you already know how to do: read
i learned most of cyrillic in one night playing new leaf with my sister lol
in all seriousness whatever argument is going on is defo based on semantics and i don't think that's really a worthwhile discussion to waste your heat on, so to speak