How silly we would feel in a powdered wig, exposing our calves in silk knickers, or wearing long peacock feathers, silver buckles, or carrying a fan: yet we bear the language rules of that age of Aristocracy with patience and enthusiasm.
Of course snobbery is part of every language difficulty: WE have learned useless language ornamentation. So shall YOU!
The greatest enemies of language are the bureaucrat and the professional political manipulator: the first is ignorant, stubborn, and a subtle verbal defender of his bureau against the people; the second deals in "double speak" wherein he shrewdly hides his real character under a patriotic lexicon of grammatical lies.