There have been various alternatives proposed but nothing has ever caught on so I think we are pretty much stuck with what we’ve got.
Heck, if we can’t even get measurement switched over to metric, which makes a WHOLE LOT more sense than the current goofy nonsense, I don’t think reforming English has a chance.
However, overall it’s not as bad as it sounds. If one studies the operative rules of Phonics and learns how to divide words into their syllables rather than guessing willy-nilly at a word in its entirety, something interesting happens.
Many people may be surprised by the fact that the English language is 87% phonetically consistent in pronounciation.
So that leaves a mere 13% as an anomaly. Therefore if one is using phonetic rules to remember how the MAJORITY of words are spelled, then one only has to focus memory upon the remaining small percent of weird ones.
That’s a whole lot more efficient than the “look-say” method which treats each word as it’s own separate entity the way it’s done in Chinese where that is a necessity.
Commonly spelled words are related in patterns. Learning those patterns them frees up the mind and memory to concentrate upon the small anomalies.