Even though for me kanji is the most fun part of the language, I can see why natives wouldn’t like them much. Kana is simply faster. Kanji get absurdly complicated at times and then it’s no longer a shortcut, it’s more of maintaining form just for the sake of maintaining form. I wonder what kind of person would write 綺麗 or even 可愛い with kanji in a casual handwritten letter.
Just a bit. I learnt hiragana in the space of a week, and katakana took me another week. That was about a decade ago, and I’m still working on kanji. 
Indeed, but in some ways, that’s the point: you might not do it in a handwritten letter, but computers allow you to write literally any kanji you can pronounce, to the point where the most recent update to the Joyo Kanji list added a bunch of kanji that are in common usage but are really annoying to write by hand (like 熊).
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Before you said that, I was convinced it was on WK. But I checked and, indeed, it is not 
That’s such a weird feeling, like I’m being gaslighted or something.
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https://www.satorireader.com/help#kanji-kana-representation
Everyone pretty much touched on it, but here’s a page for it…
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Yes, that was my point exactly. 
You know, I have no problems reading this, at all 
Hey guys, thank you all for your comments and thought, I appreciate it.
And yes, to be sure, I’m not complaining about kanji in the least. I love kanji, in fact they were one of the things that made me curious about Japanese in the first place. If anything, as I said, I’m a bit disappointed when things aren’t written in kanji even though they could be. 
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Japanese learners on the other hand… especially given that kanji isn’t going away!
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