That's not valid scholarship - projecting changes in Modern English based on a comparison to Old English. Here's some of the reasons:

In 1066, the Norman invasion brought Norman French to England. By Chaucer's time, about 300 years later, the two languages had pretty much merged, bringing many Latin-based words into the vocabulary. Since the Norman-influenced dialect was the preferred of the nobility, the masses tended to imitate this, replacing native Anglo-Saxon words.

The use of movable type in the west influenced the standardization of spelling.

The greater availability of printed material, particularly newspapers, magazines, broadsheets, political pamphlets and popular novels, whi...

That's not valid scholarship - projecting changes in Modern English based on a comparison to Old English. Here's some of the reasons:

In 1066, the Norman invasion brought Norman French to England. By Chaucer's time, about 300 years later, the two languages had pretty much merged, bringing many Latin-based words into the vocabulary. Since the Norman-influenced dialect was the preferred of the nobility, the masses tended to imitate this, replacing native Anglo-Saxon words.

The use of movable type in the west influenced the standardization of spelling.

The greater availability of printed material, particularly newspapers, magazines, broadsheets, political pamphlets and popular novels, which began in the 18th century and has accelerated since then has entrenched standardization of the language to the point that, for the last 200 years, almost all attempts at spelling reform have failed.

As English absorbs words from other languages, giving it the largest vocabulary in the world at present, the other languages tend to conform to it rather than the other way around.

Nobody can predict what linguistic, social, political and technological changes may affect language in the future.

Besides, in 20 yrz itl L B txt and nobody will talk anymore.