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Yes, the language development makes sense. It's a very interesting subject. I can read Afrikaans still and get most of what's meant. I suspect in time Dutch will drop Het as well. Lots of younger people have trouble sorting out the correct use of Het, mainly due to immigration. Even my daughter (6) uses De by default even though my husband and I use Het correctly. She uses English in school and very often literally translates. I wish Dutch would get simplified a bit. Any foreigners who try to learn in never seem to really fully manages it. I've known people who immigrated 20 years ago and I can still easily hear from word usage and grammatical errors that they're not natives (and that's not mentioning the various sounds that are quite difficult to master).