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I have advice below if you’re interested, but if you’re just ranting, that’s totally fair and feel free to ignore the rest.
Honestly, just treat English as a pictographic language. The pronunciation rules have so many exceptions, that you can either get well informed about the history of English spelling and the etymology of new vocabulary, or you can just assume the spelling is decoupled from the pronunciation. Spelling is probably less important than pronunciation generally (though it depends on how you use English) because spellcheck is pretty good nowadays.
Yeah that's what I did basically. It's a good advice at the end of the day.