Why do we still have so many apostrophes in English?

[Boliviabae]

It takes so much longer to type anything on the phone.

Apostrophe's were originally in place to show two words shortened into one. But the shortened versions of the words have been in the English langauge for so long now, why do we need the apostrophes.

The word 'Dont' for example, is easily understandable, without an apostrophe.

The whole point is that YOU started a thread about punctuation. You were the one getting aggressive and angry. Others simply matched your tone.
You absolutely refuse to concede any arguments: that you might have misunderstood or got things wrong. All you want to do is bleat on about people being rude- this is clearly a hill you wish to die on. A bloody strange choice of hill.

Because...
Panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

True story, dat.

Ah I get it. This is another Reddit poster winding us all up.