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You're right, those should also be changed. Let's get rid of the letter C too while we're at it. It makes the K sound or the S sound, we already have letters that do that, it's useless.
As great as reinventing the English language sounds, it's not realistically going to happen in a meaningful way, and making small regional changes (like the differences in the spelling of some words) is just confusing and annoying to everyone who isn't familiar with it or with English in general.
With your example of the letter C, you'd need some alternative way to write the "ch" sound (which is sometimes pronounced as "sh", depending on it's usage) if you got rid of that letter.
It's an ugly, messy, and confusing language. Popularising arbitrary changes like the ones Webster included in his dictionary (centre vs center, for example) serves no benefit to anyone - it just creates yet another variant of an ugly, messy, and confusing language.
I agree it would be difficult at first. There is precedent for it though, we've already gotten rid of thorn and ethel in the last few hundred years.
I have a plan, we use X. It most commonly makes the KS sound, we already have K and S to handle that. X is already used for the CH sound occasionally, so just lean into that and make it X's main role. "Xange the xannel please I hate Foks News"