It’s just a contest, who’s better at what than someone else.
Well, if we’re gonna compare collective stupidities: the French win.
Who invented the concept of an entire language where every word is spelled funny with silent letters, which sometimes outnumber the letters which are actually pronounced?
English picked up funny spelling because it evolved from many sources and adopted weirdness along the way. But French is designed to have weird spelling. That’s dumb! 
Right, German spelling makes good sense once you’re used to it. But this is a good example of what can happen if you aren’t. Compare:
schnee
schmal
schlagen
schreien
schwarz
all of which begin with /sh/ and then go to a consonant, and have the /sh/ spelled sch. And that’s what you do with those consonants: except in written dialect (“Sneewittchen”) you don’t begin words with sl- or sw- or sm- in German.
But then you have:
spinne
stock
which in most dialects of German (excluding mainly the far north) are pronounced with the s representing /sh/. And that’s the way it’s done with sp and st. … no sch before the consonant.
Easy to learn, I agree. But you have to learn it.
Back before computers with their automatic spell checks and red squiggley lines, people still needed to communicate in a uniform fashion. So European honeybees were genetically programmed to sting young children who misspelled words. This also caused generations of children to freak out when a bee was in a room. Many children died of anaphylatic shock caused by allergic reactions to misspelling. Back in the day, spelling bee contests were as tense as gladiatorial combat in ancient Rome, but with the added excitement that perhaps the snotty kid would actually snuff it. Or that you would go home without your own kid.